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diff --git a/distrib/notes/amiga/prep b/distrib/notes/amiga/prep index 4a6b84a3372..6456d205abf 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/amiga/prep +++ b/distrib/notes/amiga/prep @@ -3,20 +3,26 @@ drives for use with OpenBSD/amiga. HDToolBox is provided with the system software and on floppy installation disks since Release 2.0 of AmigaDOS so we will provide instructions for its use. -Preparing you hard disk with HDToolBox: +Preparing your hard disk with HDToolBox: + + If you intend to use a harddisk larger than 4 Gb, or partitions + larger than 2Gb be advised to either get HDToolBox for AmigaDOS 3.5 + or a third party harddisk preparation tool (such as HdInstTools) + from Aminet, together with the appropriate patches from + www.amiga.com to let AmigaDOS see the full size of the drive. A full explanation of HDToolBox can be found with your AmigaDOS manuals and is beyond the scope of this document. - Note you will be modifying your HD's if you mess something - up here you could lose everything on all the drives that - you configure. It is therefore advised that you: + Note that you will be modifying your HD. If you mess something + up here you could lose *EVERYTHING* on all the drives that + you configure. You are therefore advised to: Write down your current configuration. Do this by examining each partition on the drive and the drives parameters (from Change drive type.) - Back up the partitions you are keeping. + Back up all partitions you want to keep. What you need to do is partition your drives; creating at least root, swap and /usr partitions and possibly some more for @@ -60,9 +66,9 @@ Preparing you hard disk with HDToolBox: - Turn off `Automount' if on. - Set the dostype to one of these three choices: - root partition : 0x4e425207 - swap partition : 0x4e425301 - other partitions: 0x4e425507 + root partition : 0x4e425207 ("NBR\7") + swap partition : 0x4e425301 ("NBS\1") + other partitions: 0x4e425507 ("NBU\7") Here `other' refers to other partitions you will format for reading and writing under OpenBSD (e.g. |