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2002-07-04Add a few scary notes about the upgrade process, and advise people toMiod Vallat
backup their data and reinstall when the release gap is too big.
2002-06-09knfTodd T. Fries
2002-04-14Advise people to read root.mail from mail via "more 1" instead of "1"; fromMiod Vallat
deraadt@
2002-04-09Since the installation procedure will list all the supported media flagsMiod Vallat
via ifconfig -m, there is no need to suggest canonical media flags on some arches, especially since the end user might have a different interface with different flags; instead, be more cosy and mention that looking at the manual page for the interface might be helpful for desperate cases. Thus, merge the OpenBSDInstallNet and OpenBSDInstallNet2 macros, and remove thde in-between text for the arches that had such a paragraph.
2002-03-30Factorize more common texts from the ramdisk operation.Miod Vallat
No text changes except for harmonization, and the blurb about network interface flags has bene slightly changed for some arches.
2002-03-30Typos du jour.Miod Vallat
2002-03-28Remove lies from the description of the misc set.Miod Vallat
2002-03-23Hide upgrade stuff from the installation notes until sparc64 systems canMiod Vallat
be upgraded to 3.2.
2001-12-02Add a few useful details to the mac68k installation notes, based on feedbackMiod Vallat
from "Dave C." <aq820@hwcn.org> Also, sync supported hardware list with mac68k.html..
2001-10-14When creating floppies under Solaris, you can avoid killing vold if youMiod Vallat
use the magic device filename. Pointed out by matthieu@.
2001-10-14Solaris friendly update!Miod Vallat
- Provide typical Solaris command lines for creating floppies, dumping miniroots to disks, and filling tapes. - Make the tape generation script more versatile. - When SunOS add_client(8) is mentioned, mention Solaris share(1M) as well. - Add ``Installing from Solaris'' instructions for sparc and sparc64 ports - While there, slight fixes to the ``Installing from SunOS'' sections on sparc and sun3.
2001-10-10Get rid of the boasting about compilers.Miod Vallat
2001-10-10Provide the ability to insert extra notes in the Xserv.tgz set description.Miod Vallat
Will be needed shortly.
2001-10-07- remove xlink set description, we don't have it nowadays.Miod Vallat
- showsize now always takes MB sizes as arguments, and prints the unit by itself.
2001-10-06Note to self: save your file before running cvs diff, for your diff toMiod Vallat
be complete...
2001-10-06- add more macros, for common texts usually found in arch/xfer.Miod Vallat
- unobfuscate the tape installation notes - no need to tell the user ``if your tape was bootable, do this'' on arches where you can't boot from tape. - in the upgrade instructions, tell people it's better to upgrade all their sets and not just base; and strongly advise them to merge etc asap. People upgrading to 3.0 and having trouble with, say, sendmail will have no excuse. - add more comments to explain this whole mess.
2001-10-02Do not hardcode the ability to boot off a miniroot in the canonicalMiod Vallat
upgrade instructions. This will be needed for the i386 updates.
2001-10-02More shared texts. Basically let modern arches with good hardware getMiod Vallat
rid of the ``you'd better know your disk geometry, serial number, date of manufacture, weight and temperature before installing, pal'' note.
2001-10-02Rework the floppy and miniroot description:Miod Vallat
- try to keep description information together, with no duplicate circumlocutions - arches which have several floppies shouldn't say there is THE floppy, then THE floppy, and once more THE floppy. Change plural accordingly for the general description of earch floppy image possibilities, if more than one.
2001-09-24Why make things simple when you can make them overcomplicated, etc. Doh.Miod Vallat
Much cleaner this way...
2001-09-24Some tweaks:Miod Vallat
+ removeOpenBSDfloppyB macro, as i386 and alpha need different descriptions for it. + OpenBSDbase and OpenBSDcomp take an optional first parameter to tell if the architecture has shared libraries or not. If it has no shared libraries, don't mention them in the descriptions.
2001-09-11remove acd references; millert@ ok.Federico G. Schwindt
2001-08-22Summer distribution notes cleanup: change the DistributionDescriptionMiod Vallat
macro to take the number of sets as argument; this will help us correct the i386, mvme68k, sun3 and vax installation notes...
2001-05-02Correctly number the items in the ``installing via HTTP'' instructions;Miod Vallat
from Mike Pechkin <mpech@prosoft.org.lv>
2001-04-24Update floppy disk descriptions.Miod Vallat
Add a macro to document floppyC. Add a macro to document generic upgrade instructions. Fix a few typos. ok fries@
2001-03-28Fix the packages information for ``compound'' architectures (i.e.Miod Vallat
m68k or mips-based) to show correct paths. Problem found by jj@, ok fries@
2000-05-06Mention bootable tape particularities, deraadt@ okMiod Vallat
2000-04-27would you like a tgz to go?Todd T. Fries
1999-10-10doc that install script sets password; wvdputteTheo de Raadt
1999-09-23re-alignmenTodd T. Fries
1999-09-23initial documentation of floppyB and cdrom imagesTodd T. Fries
1999-04-11add xshare, indent for xshareTodd T. Fries
1998-12-19merge text into baseTheo de Raadt
1998-11-20typoTodd T. Fries
1998-11-03it's -> its where appropriateAaron Campbell
1998-05-18s/cpp/m4/gTodd T. Fries