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authorMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-03-16 13:40:41 +0000
committerMiod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-03-16 13:40:41 +0000
commit09ddb786d2e2f6d9e5dd269cebc7e79e3cdb5341 (patch)
treeaefd2df34d78e829f1a99db7ddfab0c83bd05548 /distrib
parenta4ff75d9949de45c17671a682dcb1f44912417bc (diff)
Better texts around the fdisk step; tested about as much as the pegasos
firmware changes; ok krw@ deraadt@
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-rw-r--r--distrib/pegasos/ramdisk/install.md20
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/pegasos/ramdisk/install.md b/distrib/pegasos/ramdisk/install.md
index 4132667ded0..145479eadae 100644
--- a/distrib/pegasos/ramdisk/install.md
+++ b/distrib/pegasos/ramdisk/install.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: install.md,v 1.2 2003/12/04 20:17:03 deraadt Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: install.md,v 1.3 2004/03/16 13:40:40 miod Exp $
#
#
# Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -94,18 +94,13 @@ __EOT
# hints and let the user rip.
cat << __EOT
-**** NOTE ****
+You will now create a single MBR partition to contain your OpenBSD data. This
+partition must have an id of 'A6'; must *NOT* overlap other partitions; and
+must be marked as the only active partition.
-A valid MBR for an OpenBSD bootable disk must contain at least:
-
-a) One OpenBSD (id 'A6') partition.
-
-**************
-
-Current partition information is:
+The 'manual' command describes all the fdisk commands in detail.
$(fdisk $_disk)
-
__EOT
fdisk -e $_disk
@@ -114,11 +109,6 @@ __EOT
Here is the MBR configuration you chose:
$(fdisk $_disk)
-
-Please take note of the offsets and sizes of any DOS partitions, the OpenBSD
-partition, and any other partitions you want to access from OpenBSD. You may
-need this information to fill in the OpenBSD disklabel.
-
__EOT
}