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diff --git a/distrib/notes/arc/prep b/distrib/notes/arc/prep deleted file mode 100644 index db93530198d..00000000000 --- a/distrib/notes/arc/prep +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -Before you start you should familiarize yourself with the ARC Bios setup -and how to run programs from the ARC Bios screen. - -You should also examine the guide on the OpenBSD/arc web site, which -will hopefully soon have more complete and more up-to-date instructions -than are given in the install document. - -If you're installing OpenBSD/arc for the first time it's a very good idea -to look at the partition sizes of disk you intend installing OpenBSD on. -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. - -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. 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. -A minimum /usr partition (e) is ~150M but with that you will run into trouble -later. A minimum size of 350M is recommended. A full binary installation, -without X11 or any other additional software, takes about 120MB in `/usr'. - |