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2013-07-26Minimalist update for 5.4. eyeballed deraadt@Miod Vallat
2013-02-25Realistic memory amounts required for the installation (although, afterMiod Vallat
installation, the kernel may need less than this). Stress that there is no much point running with less than 32MB nowadays (unless you love being swap-bound).
2013-02-25sets size updatesMiod Vallat
2013-02-09Update minimal disk and memory sizes to match the bsd.rd requirementsMiod Vallat
(especially on vax, where bsd.rd really needs 16MB to install nowadays although the system can live in less). While there, fix a few typos.
2013-02-09Teach people they will need to upgrade their boot blocks, and how to do this,Miod Vallat
if they want to upgrade with bsd.rd, since older boot blocks can't boot ELF kernels.
2012-09-02A bit more details about s-records operation.Miod Vallat
2011-08-08Usual release distrib/notes churning. ok deraadt@Miod Vallat
2011-04-10I am only now noticing the number of sets have not been adjusted after theMiod Vallat
removal of misc. Better late than never.
2010-10-18the misc set went awayTheo de Raadt
2010-03-16Jumbo commit for 4.7 installation instructions:Miod Vallat
- do not mention tape as an installation media on systems where it is very unlikely that a tape drive can be connected to (i.e. anything with only USB as expansion capabilities) - do not mention that fetching the installation sets from a partition is ``for upgrades only''. You may do this for installation, but of course you can not use a partition which will be newfs'ed for that purpose. - mention ext2fs partitions as possible installation sets source only on platforms where the installation media actually can mount an ext2fs filesystem. - stress the fact that the sparc miniroot image is a GENERIC kernel with a little on-disk filesystem, and not a RAMDISK kernel with a little in-memory filesystem, and thus must not be overwritten during installation (i.e. be careful if you repartition the disk the miniroot has been put on). - more conv=sync -> conv=osync for tape setup instructions. - model-specific layout changes on armish, loongson and socppc instructions. - fix various typos and grammar mistaeks. "sure" deraadt@ (without eyeballing)
2009-10-10Fix a quoting typo in commentsMiod Vallat
2009-06-28Change mid-sentence "From" to "from".Stuart Henderson
2009-05-13Better disk partitioning details, especially for MBR + disklabel orMiod Vallat
HFS + disklabel setups.
2009-05-12Try to catch up with installer changes in the installation notes.Miod Vallat
Also, the per-platform features are moved to a common place, which makes the MD layout easier to work on. m4.common is still a tangled mess of subtly placed dnl, though...
2009-03-01Support for MVME141 boards. Tested with both VME and VSB memory boardsMiod Vallat
(and MVME327 SCSI and MVME376 Ethernet, to provide a complete system).
2009-03-01Support for MVME165 board - code written in april 2006, eventually debuggedMiod Vallat
last month.
2009-02-28Update sets sizes.Miod Vallat
2009-02-18Remove 68060 here tooMiod Vallat
2009-02-17Sync with recent changes.Miod Vallat
2008-08-06Update sets sizes.Miod Vallat
2008-08-06Minor random tweaks and fixes.Miod Vallat
2008-08-05Better description of the installation steps:Miod Vallat
- document questions in proper order: hostname before network configuration, DNS only if network is configured, sshd and ntpd, aperture only on machines which need it, serial console only on machines which need it. This is done by splitting the end of OpenBSDCommonURL in various macros, OpenBSDInstallWrapup, OpenBSDInstallAperture, OpenBSDInstallConsole and OpenBSDInstallWrapupPart2. - use the above macros when appropriate, OpenBSDInstallWrapup* being mandatory on all arches. - remove serial console configuration blurb on sparc and sparc64, it is handled by OpenBSDInstallConsole now.
2008-03-10Suggest vt220 as a TERM value for serial-console-in-an-xterm setup everywhereMiod Vallat
instead of a mix of vt100 and vt220.
2008-03-10Sync sets sizes with release bits.Miod Vallat
2007-03-01Your spring jumbo m4-fu. This time:Miod Vallat
- mention comp contains an objective-C compiler too. - rewrite InstallPrelude so that it will only output the ``know your drive geometry'' blurb if asked to, and for a specified disk type. Use it for non-IDE and non-SCSI disks only, otherwise the kernel is good enough to do the job without the users' help. - similarily, adapt BootMsgs to make the second part of the geometry blurb optional, and to accept up to three disk types. Use this to report better disk names (i.e. no point saying an scsi disk would show up as sd0 on platforms which can't have scsi disks, or won't be able to boot from them). - in InstallPart4, drop the part about block and fragment sizes in disklabel. The defaults are good, and you won't get to change them unless you switched to expert mode. - the default answer to ``wanna get the ftp mirror list, unzel?'' is ``no'', so pressing enter to get it is not enough anymore (-:
2006-02-28Update sets sizes; ok deraadt@Miod Vallat
2005-08-30Update sets size, and a few tweaks; also size of files smaller than 1MBMiod Vallat
get printed in KB now; ok mickey@ deraadt@
2005-03-21Sync tape install details with the install script, mostly a numberingMiod Vallat
change for files on the tape. Prompted by and discussed with claudio@.
2005-03-18Mention local filesystems are only suitable for upgrades.Miod Vallat
2005-03-18Rework description slightly.Miod Vallat
2004-09-20Too much cut'n'paste in NIOT description cause confusion as the textMiod Vallat
refers to ;H but shows ;A in examples; spotted by nick@
2004-09-10Update sets sizes with the latest binaries (except for hp300 X11 which willMiod Vallat
be late).
2004-09-10Try to make the port descriptions less stupid and more concise.Miod Vallat
2004-07-28Xetc causes the number of sets to change, better reflect it in the text...Miod Vallat
2004-06-22introduce the new xetc set. ok deraadt@, miod@, krw@.Matthieu Herrb
2004-06-07provide sets sizes in raw bytecounts and thenMichael Shalayeff
uniformly compute the MB numbers in m4.common; reduce average calculator uptime. miod@ ok
2004-03-27Fold the contents section, no real text change. ok deraadt@Miod Vallat
2004-03-26Specify units: xxM -> xxMB, etcTom Cosgrove
ok miod@ deraadt@
2004-03-25Various typosTom Cosgrove
ok miod@ deraadt@
2004-03-20Sets size updates.Miod Vallat
2004-03-17grammar, consistency fixes, and typos;Jason McIntyre
ok miod@
2004-03-16typos and consistency fixes;Jason McIntyre
ok miod@
2004-02-09be accurate now that SunOS compat output does not exist in MAKEDEV; ok miod@Todd T. Fries
2004-01-03``device'' is not written ``devic''.Miod Vallat
2003-09-09Update sets sizes.Miod Vallat
2003-09-06MD installation notes updates for 3.4, 3/3Miod Vallat
Describe with much more details how to successfully boot from various devices, including non-built-in ethernet or SCSI controllers; also hint that most of the MVME147 and the MVME187 can not netboot at all. This should be much, much more understandable (but we need to run this through a drunk pvalchev@ to be sure).
2003-06-22Sync NIOT load address with the bootloader address change of last year,Miod Vallat
my bad. Spotted by pvalchev@.
2003-06-21A few clarifications, and more third-person text.Miod Vallat
2003-06-21minor grammarPeter Valchev
2003-06-21typoPeter Valchev