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authorMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-01-11 21:02:56 +0000
committerMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-01-11 21:02:56 +0000
commit956b5151c99e3a0355cf6099412e47753d3c2240 (patch)
tree3e565c81e49ebac1343b6b6fe6df826567e220ae /distrib/notes
parent7e972fdf553804f837b13ccec99b2ad5e2ee676a (diff)
No more etc set, also sparc nowadays needs more than 16MB to boot multiuser.
Diffstat (limited to 'distrib/notes')
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/aviion/hardware6
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/i386/hardware9
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/luna88k/hardware4
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/sparc/hardware9
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/sparc/install10
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/sparc64/hardware6
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/sparc64/install10
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/vax/hardware4
8 files changed, 28 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/aviion/hardware b/distrib/notes/aviion/hardware
index 5272f319e1d..69a76fe7e14 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/aviion/hardware
+++ b/distrib/notes/aviion/hardware
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.3 2013/11/01 19:02:00 miod Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.4 2015/01/11 21:02:55 miod Exp $
OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV runs on the following Data General AViiON systems:
- AV100/200/300/400, AV3000/4000 and AV4300 series
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ While OpenBSD will boot single-user in 8MB, a minimum of 12MB of RAM is
necessary to install and boot multi-user, and 16MB of RAM are recommended
as a minimum for the system not to be swap-bound, with 32MB or more being
recommended for serious usage of the system. A minimal system can probably
-be squeezed onto a 250MB disk by installing only the `base' and `etc' sets
-and using a small swap partition.
+be squeezed onto a 250MB disk by installing only the `base' set and using a
+small swap partition.
Note that until you have at least 32MB of RAM, getting more RAM is more
important than getting a faster system.
diff --git a/distrib/notes/i386/hardware b/distrib/notes/i386/hardware
index 4802a928359..493ad50c5e2 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/i386/hardware
+++ b/distrib/notes/i386/hardware
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.289 2014/02/27 19:06:38 tedu Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.290 2015/01/11 21:02:55 miod Exp $
OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV works across a broad range of standard PCs and
clones, with a wide variety of processors and I/O bus architectures. It
can be expected to install and run with minimal difficulties on most
@@ -11,11 +11,10 @@ systems. To support SMP operation, a separate SMP kernel (bsd.mp)
is included with the installation file sets.
The minimal configuration to install the system is 32MB of RAM and
-at least 200MB of disk space to accomodate the `base' and `etc' sets.
+at least 250MB of disk space to accomodate the `base' set.
To install the entire system, at least 600MB of disk are required,
and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.
-Please refer to the website for a full list of support hardware.
-
-http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
+Please refer to the website for a full list of supported hardware:
+ http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html
diff --git a/distrib/notes/luna88k/hardware b/distrib/notes/luna88k/hardware
index ee2850e1099..4b1f1740afb 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/luna88k/hardware
+++ b/distrib/notes/luna88k/hardware
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.6 2014/04/22 22:58:02 aoyama Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.7 2015/01/11 21:02:55 miod Exp $
OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV runs on the OMRON LUNA-88K workstations family.
16MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot and a minimal system can probably
-be squeezed onto a 250MB disk by installing only the `base' and `etc' sets.
+be squeezed onto a 250MB disk by installing only the `base' set.
However, a minimum of 32MB is recommended for serious usage of the system.
Supported devices:
diff --git a/distrib/notes/sparc/hardware b/distrib/notes/sparc/hardware
index c2af5c99b82..b61b9348a0e 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/sparc/hardware
+++ b/distrib/notes/sparc/hardware
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.81 2014/02/27 18:48:15 deraadt Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.82 2015/01/11 21:02:55 miod Exp $
OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV runs on the following classes of machines:
* sun4: the VME series
- 4/100: Original SPARC with VME. Many hardware bugs.
@@ -74,10 +74,9 @@ For sun4m machines, the following mbus CPU modules are supported:
- Ross HyperSPARC RT620/625 at 166 MHz, with 512KB of primary cache
- Ross HyperSPARC RT620/625 at 180 MHz, with 512KB of primary cache
-8MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot and a minimal system can probably
-be squeezed onto a 250MB disk by installing only the `base' and `etc' sets.
-However, a minimum of 16MB is necessary for the system not to be swap-bound,
-with 32MB or more being recommended for serious usage of the system.
+24MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot and a minimal system can probably
+be squeezed onto a 250MB disk by installing only the `base' set.
+However, a minimum of 32MB is recommended for serious usage of the system.
Note that until you have at least 32MB of RAM, getting more RAM is more
important than getting a faster CPU board.
diff --git a/distrib/notes/sparc/install b/distrib/notes/sparc/install
index 611b52e1804..369f19df6a1 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/sparc/install
+++ b/distrib/notes/sparc/install
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.75 2014/03/19 01:59:49 tedu Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.76 2015/01/11 21:02:55 miod Exp $
OpenBSDInstallPrelude({:-SMD disks-:})
There are several ways to install OpenBSD onto a disk. The normal way
@@ -433,10 +433,10 @@ that partition, or use tar to copy the contents to a more convenient spot.
Alternatively you can build a bootable partition from the distribution sets
as follows:
-Unpack `base{:--:}OSrev.tgz' and `etc{:--:}OSrev.tgz' on the server in the root directory
-for your target machine. If you elect to use a separately NFS-mounted
-filesystem for `/usr' with your diskless setup, make sure the "./usr" base
-files in base{:--:}OSrev.tgz end up in the correct location. One way to do this is
+Unpack `base{:--:}OSrev.tgz' on the server in the root directory for your
+target machine. If you elect to use a separately NFS-mounted filesystem for
+`/usr' with your diskless setup, make sure the "./usr" base files in
+base{:--:}OSrev.tgz end up in the correct location. One way to do this is
to temporarily use a loopback mount on the server, re-routing <root>/usr to
your server's exported OpenBSD "/usr" directory. Also put the kernel and
the install/upgrade scripts into the root directory.
diff --git a/distrib/notes/sparc64/hardware b/distrib/notes/sparc64/hardware
index 52f15f96d67..d2a4ff0b01b 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/sparc64/hardware
+++ b/distrib/notes/sparc64/hardware
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.159 2014/02/27 18:48:15 deraadt Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.160 2015/01/11 21:02:55 miod Exp $
OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV runs on the following classes of machines:
Ultra 1/1E
Ultra 2
@@ -92,6 +92,6 @@ OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV supports SMP (Symmetrical MultiProcessor)
systems. To support SMP operation, a separate SMP kernel (bsd.mp) is
included with the installation file sets.
-16MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot and a minimal system can probably
-be squeezed onto a 250MB disk by installing only the `base' and `etc' sets.
+24MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot and a minimal system can probably
+be squeezed onto a 250MB disk by installing only the `base' set.
However, a minimum of 32MB is recommended for serious usage of the system.
diff --git a/distrib/notes/sparc64/install b/distrib/notes/sparc64/install
index 8937d996d98..0103f3b0b1b 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/sparc64/install
+++ b/distrib/notes/sparc64/install
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.48 2014/03/19 01:59:49 tedu Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.49 2015/01/11 21:02:55 miod Exp $
OpenBSDInstallPrelude
There are several ways to install OpenBSD onto a disk. The easiest way
@@ -270,10 +270,10 @@ that partition, or use tar to copy the contents to a more convenient spot.
Alternatively you can build a bootable partition from the distribution sets
as follows:
-Unpack `base{:--:}OSrev.tgz' and `etc{:--:}OSrev.tgz' on the server in the root directory
-for your target machine. If you elect to use a separately NFS-mounted
-filesystem for `/usr' with your diskless setup, make sure the "./usr" base
-files in base{:--:}OSrev.tgz end up in the correct location. One way to do this is
+Unpack `base{:--:}OSrev.tgz' on the server in the root directory for your
+target machine. If you elect to use a separately NFS-mounted filesystem for
+`/usr' with your diskless setup, make sure the "./usr" base files in
+base{:--:}OSrev.tgz end up in the correct location. One way to do this is
to temporarily use a loopback mount on the server, re-routing <root>/usr to
your server's exported OpenBSD "/usr" directory. Also put the kernel and
the install/upgrade scripts into the root directory.
diff --git a/distrib/notes/vax/hardware b/distrib/notes/vax/hardware
index 30fec203ae2..5b8baaeea32 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/vax/hardware
+++ b/distrib/notes/vax/hardware
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.30 2013/02/25 20:28:01 miod Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: hardware,v 1.31 2015/01/11 21:02:55 miod Exp $
OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV runs on a wide variety of VAX hardware.
The following systems have been tested:
- VAXstation 2000
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Supported devices {:-include-:}:
dnl 12MB needs swap during installation, which is a work-in-progress
16MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot and a minimal system can probably
-be squeezed onto a 300MB disk by installing only the `base' and `etc' sets.
+be squeezed onto a 300MB disk by installing only the `base' set.
However, a minimum of 32MB is recommended for serious usage of the system.
Currently, your storage options for using OpenBSD/MACHINE are SCSI disks