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| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/arc/hardware | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/arc/install | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/arc/prep | 6 |
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diff --git a/distrib/notes/arc/hardware b/distrib/notes/arc/hardware index 52b5d0e6e7e..7bced3a9d79 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/arc/hardware +++ b/distrib/notes/arc/hardware @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ X or compile the system, 32Mb of RAM and ~1G of disk is recommended. Supported devices include: graphics: - built-in S3 VGA graphics adatper on PICA. + built-in S3 VGA graphics adapter on PICA. Standard VGA graphics adapter on rPC44 and Tyne. Note that X11R6 currently supports only S3 boards. diff --git a/distrib/notes/arc/install b/distrib/notes/arc/install index cea979d80aa..f61954d1555 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/arc/install +++ b/distrib/notes/arc/install @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Installing using the OpenBSD ramdisk kernel. The ramdisk kernel is a self-contained OpenBSD filesystem including all utilities necessary to install OpenBSD on a local disk, embedded in a GENERIC kernel image. It is distributed as a plain ECOFF executable file -designed to be loaded into the system by the ARC firmaware. +designed to be loaded into the system by the ARC firmware. Loading the ramdisk kernel into your system is done with the appropriate BIOS Run command on Your system. Usually this is done by typing in the @@ -56,14 +56,14 @@ The installation script goes through the following phases: The installation program will guide you through the installation. There is one area of complexity that you should be very careful about and that is -how to install the requiered MBR (Msdos Boot Record) and MSDOS FAT partition. +how to install the required MBR (Msdos Boot Record) and MSDOS FAT partition. OpenBSD will coexist with other operating systems with help from the MSDOS partition table. Because the ARC Bios only knows how to boot from a FAT formatted disk there must always exist a small or big (depending on your needs) MSDOS FAT partition on the disk. Install will initialize the install target disk with a proper MBR and an empty 5Mb MSDOS partition it that is -desired. Or it will keep the curent MBR and partitioning. In the later case +desired. Or it will keep the current MBR and partitioning. In the later case you will need to fill in the MBR with a usable OpenBSD partition. diff --git a/distrib/notes/arc/prep b/distrib/notes/arc/prep index ba78e73007d..db93530198d 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/arc/prep +++ b/distrib/notes/arc/prep @@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ Changing the size of partitions after you've installed is difficult. If you do not have a spare bootable disk, it may be simpler to re-install OpenBSD again from scratch. -Asumming a classic partition scheme with root (`/') and /usr filesystems, +Assuming a classic partition scheme with root (`/') and /usr filesystems, a comfortable size for the OpenBSD root filesystem partition (a) is about -32Mb. The install will take ~18Mb of that. Hovever it has shown that 60M -is not a bad choise when more packages are to be installed. It is recommended +32Mb. The install will take ~18Mb of that. However it has shown that 60M +is not a bad choice when more packages are to be installed. It is recommended that the 'a' partition and the MSDOS (i) partition uses the first 64Mb. A good initial size for the swap (b) partition is twice the amount of physical memory in your machine or at least 64M. |