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diff --git a/distrib/notes/zaurus/install b/distrib/notes/zaurus/install index 340a0e289fe..89527fb1f6c 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/zaurus/install +++ b/distrib/notes/zaurus/install @@ -1,9 +1,51 @@ -dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.7 2005/03/09 03:41:37 jcs Exp $ +dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.8 2005/03/19 00:56:05 uwe Exp $ OpenBSDInstallPrelude + openbsd{:--:}OSrev{:--:}_arm.ipk + OpenBSD is installed on the Zaurus by effectively converting -Linux into a bootloader. You will need the following files -from the distribution: +Linux into a bootloader. This can be done easily by installing +a package from Qtopia, or manually from a terminal. Both ways +are described below, the easy one first. + +The package takes care of modifying the Linux startup files for +you as necessary. To protect you from a common pitfall, ext3 +filesystems mounted on /hdd[12] are converted back to ext2. + +(That way a fatal error in Linux startup scripts is avoided when +the journal has been destroyed by mounting one of the ext3 +filesystems as ext2 on OpenBSD.) + +1. Press "Home" until the second icon tab is selected (Settings). +2. Open the "Add/Remove Software" dialog. That's the green icon + with an arrow pointing from left to right into a rectangle. +3. Press "Install packages via networks", the middle one of the + three big buttons. The "Package Manager" dialog pops up. +4. Press the yellow switch icon in the lower right corner to + bring up the "Package Servers" dialog. +5. Press the left button, which is labeled "New" if your zaurus + is in English, enter the HTTP URL of the nearest OpenBSD, and + change the field above the URL into a name for that server. + Press the "OK" button in the upper right corner to return to + the "Package Manager" dialog. +6. Press the "Upgrade" button in the lower left corner to update + the package index if that was not done automatically. A + package named "openbsd" should appear in the package list. + Select this package and press the question mark icon in the + lower right corner. +7. Now you see the package details and three buttons, labeled + "Install", "Remove", and "Ignore" in this order. Press the + leftmost button and twice "OK" to finish the installation. +8. Close the "Add/Remove Software" dialog, switch to the first + tab (Applications), scroll down, and press the icon which is + labeled "Install OpenBSD". A few seconds later, OpenBSD will + boot on your Zaurus. +9. The next time you reboot the zaurus, you will have the choice + of booting either OpenBSD or Linux. At the zboot> prompt, + hit enter to boot OpenBSD, or type 'r' to boot Linux. + +To install the OpenBSD boot program manually, you will need the +following files from the distribution: zbsdmod.o zboot @@ -12,7 +54,7 @@ from the distribution: After starting up some sort of terminal emulator on the Zaurus and becoming root, perform the following operation: - # insmod -f zbsdmod.o + # insmod zbsdmod.o # cp bsd.rd /proc/zboot A few seconds later, OpenBSD will boot on your Zaurus. @@ -20,8 +62,8 @@ A few seconds later, OpenBSD will boot on your Zaurus. If you already have a bsd.rd or bsd kernel contained in a FFS partition on the C3000 hard drive, you can instead use - # insmod -f zbsdmod.o - # zboot + # insmod zbsdmod.o + # ./zboot OpenBSDInstallPart2 @@ -53,7 +95,7 @@ OpenBSDInstallPart4({:- If you have Linux partitions One of the three partitions on the Zaurus C3000 hard drive is a 3GB MSDOS filesystem. This partition can be a lot smaller, it is therefore recommended that you cut most of the space off - this tiny MSDOS partition, and create a new 0xA6 partition + this large MSDOS partition, and create a new A6 partition afterwards, like this: 0: 83 0 3 13 - 1511 7 17 [ 63: 205569 ] Linux files* |