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diff --git a/distrib/notes/pmax/install b/distrib/notes/pmax/install index d7d2aa37304..9774c60e05e 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/pmax/install +++ b/distrib/notes/pmax/install @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ this document in hand it shouldn't be too much trouble. Also i wanted to note that the installation procedure via install script is new for the pmax and i had only the chance of limited testing for it - so if you run into any problems with it or if this -documentation is somehow unclear - please send me a mail and i'll try +documentation is somehow unclear - please send me a mail and I'll try to help you or to fix the problem. There are several ways to install OpenBSD onto a disk. The easiest way @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ setup which is another convenient way to install OpenBSD/pmax. Installing using the OpenBSD simpleroot. The simpleroot is a self-contained OpenBSD filesystem holding a complete -OpenBSD/pmax rootfilesystem plus all utilities necessary to install +OpenBSD/pmax root filesystem plus all utilities necessary to install OpenBSD on a local disk. It is distributed as a plain file designed to be transferred to a raw disk from which it can be booted using the appropriate PROM command. @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ appropriate PROM command. Loading the simpleroot onto your raw partition is simple. You can do this on any machine you can hang on the disk which you plan to put onto the pmax which allows you to write to the raw disk - i.e. on all -UN*X like operatingsystems it should work using "dd". On OpenBSD +UN*X like operating systems it should work using "dd". On OpenBSD as well as SunOS you use a command like: # dd if=simpleroot22.fs of=/dev/rsd0c bs=20b conv=sync @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ documentation that came with it (on SunOS systems, add_client(8) is a good start). One part of the distribution of OpenBSD/pmax is a file called -simpleroot22.tar.gz which is a good start for the rootfilesystem area on +simpleroot22.tar.gz which is a good start for the root filesystem area on the NFS server then you want to install via network. A few configuration files need to be edited: @@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ devices on the server using mv ../MAKEDEV* . ./MAKEDEV all -This may not not work correctly on some operatingsystems. +This may not not work correctly on some operating systems. -Ok here is in shortform what you have to do on the Server to prepare a +Ok here is in short form what you have to do on the Server to prepare a diskless installation of OpenBSD/pmax assuming the Server is an OpenBSD machine (for instance a PC running OpenBSD/i386). As said above for other systems you'll have to look into the supplied @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ documentation for that systems. All the following should apply also without any major changes to an FreeBSD or NetBSD server. If the following instructions are not enough - you may look at the -manpages for the following commands: +man pages for the following commands: * tftpd * rarpd @@ -201,13 +201,13 @@ Ok - now let's see what to do to set up the server: --- snip --- prospero is the hostname of the server in this example -* start the rquired daemons on the server: +* start the required daemons on the server: /usr/sbin/rpc.bootparamd /usr/sbin/rarpd -a and bootpd - either by uncommenting the entry in /etc/inetd.conf and - sending inetd an HUP signal like above or by starting it explicitely + sending inetd an HUP signal like above or by starting it explicitly /usr/sbin/bootpd @@ -224,13 +224,13 @@ Ok - now let's see what to do to set up the server: If you plan to use OpenBSD/pmax on a diskless system in the future - keep in mind that the Decstations can only boot ecoff format kernels -via net - so you have to convert them explicitely after the kernel +via net - so you have to convert them explicitly after the kernel compilation to ecoff - therefor in the kernel compile dir you can do the following after the kernel compile has finished elf2ecoff bsd.elf bsd.ecoff -then you can use the bsd.ecoff for netbooting - as a startingpoint for +then you can use the bsd.ecoff for netbooting - as a starting point for the kernel config file you may choose GENERIC_NFS. After you have set up everything correctly you can boot your system @@ -241,12 +241,12 @@ Continuing the installation from single user mode If you have reached single user mode either via booting the simpleroot image or via booting over the network you will have to -relabel/label your disk and put filesystems on the patitions. +relabel/label your disk and put filesystems on the partitions. So here's what you have to do after going into single user mode: - simpleroot image (assuming you have the simpleroot on rz0 and want - to install on that disk too - everytinh behind the ";" is comment) + to install on that disk too - everything behind the ";" is comment) # fsck /dev/rrz0a ; check the filesystem # mount /dev/rz0a / ; mount / read write @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ installing - please first look at I'll try to collect there any hints, fixes and so on. If your problem can't be solved that way just send me a mail to graichen@OpenBSD.org -and i'll try to help you fixing it. +and I'll try to help you fixing it. If you should somehow fail using the install script and want to restart - you may have to umount any filesystems mounted while running @@ -274,15 +274,15 @@ the install script (so all except /) and clean /tmp using: then it should be possible to rerun it again. -Now some more notes about labeling the disk - which you will hjave to +Now some more notes about labeling the disk - which you will have to do in the process of running the install script. -Here follows an example of what you'll see while in the dislabel editor. +Here follows an example of what you'll see while in the disklabel editor. Do not touch any of the parameters except for the `label: ' entry and the actual partition size information at the bottom (the lines starting with `a:', `b:', ...). -If you are using the simpleroot image and wan't to install onto the +If you are using the simpleroot image and want to install onto the same disk you put the simpleroot on you'll also have to change the sector, track, cylinder, etc. entries to match the values for your disk. The Problem is to get those values for your disk :-) - you can @@ -381,10 +381,10 @@ Note: if you have finished the disklabeling and exited the editor for editing the label in the process of the installation and if you then get a message like: "no disklabel on disk - use the -r option to write one" you should ignore it and answer no to the question if you want to -reedit the disklabel - this is due to a problem with the pmax +re-edit the disklabel - this is due to a problem with the pmax disklabel code and it should be worked around by the install script. -So what does the install script explicitely do ? +So what does the install script explicitly do ? These script will do most of the work of transferring the system from the tar files onto your disk. You will frequently be asked for confirmation |