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diff --git a/distrib/notes/pmax/prep b/distrib/notes/pmax/prep new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b99b49e870c --- /dev/null +++ b/distrib/notes/pmax/prep @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Before you start you should familiarize yourself with the boot PROM +of your machine. The older Decstation 2100 and 3100 cannot select +a kernel from the command line. You need to set the bootpath +environment variable to point to the disk and kernel you intend to boot. + +You should also examine the guide on the OpenBSD/pmax 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/pmax 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. + +But if you don't have a second disk or plan to do an installation via +netbooting you don't have any choice about the partition sizes (at +least not for the root and the swap partitions) because they are set +in the simpleroot image to to 32M for root and 64M for swap. About the +rest of your disk you can still decide yourself. + +Asumming a classic partition scheme with root (`/') and /usr filesystems, +a comfortable size for the OpenBSD root filesystem partition is about 32M; +a good initial size for the swap partition is twice the amount of physical +memory in your machine (though, unlike Ultrix, there are no restrictions on +the size of the swap partition that would render part of your memory +unusable). A full binary installation, without X11 or other additional +software, takes about 130MB in `/usr'. |