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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-11-02 16:35:47 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-11-02 16:35:47 +0000
commitba6028c716256ce9cded24360ca27ca00a7e63d6 (patch)
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parent7aed381c413e9f26ec0ffaa1b0b6b8d05ad4db15 (diff)
more improvements; gbayley@ausmac.net
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@@ -23,14 +23,16 @@ question. If you wish to stop the installation, you may hit Control-C
at any time, but if you do, you'll have to begin the installation
process again from scratch.
- At this time the system can primarily only be installed
- by network loading the bootloader. Once the bootloader
- is installed on the local harddrive the system can boot
- from local disk, but currently the bootloader cannot be
- loaded from CD.
-
- [include directions on where to look up network booting
- instructions]
+ At this time the system can be installed from the supplied
+ CD boot image or by network loading the bootloader. Once
+ the bootloader is installed on the local hard drive, the
+ system can boot from it. Although currently OpenBSD
+ cannot share the same drive as Mac OS due to partitioning
+ issues, systems that support more than one physical drive
+ can dual boot using Open Firmware commands.
+
+ (Refer to "OpenBSD OSREV Release Contents" above for information
+ on how to access and boot from Open Firmware)
You will then be presented with the OpenBSD kernel boot
messages. You will want to read them, to determine your