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2003-01-04Various typos and inaccuracies; David KrauseMiod Vallat
2002-12-30Do not mention NFS as a possible tarballs source when the installation mediaMiod Vallat
does not support NFS mounts.
2002-10-03Document upgrades on sparc64 again, and tweak a few things.Miod Vallat
2002-06-30Do not suggest the use of the floppy images as poor man's miniroot anymore.Miod Vallat
2002-06-09knfTodd T. Fries
2002-04-17Our m4 generated MAKEDEV will eventually be less SunOS-friendly than theyMiod Vallat
used to are, if at all; so warn people setting up diskless systems under SunOS or other operating systems that they might need to edit MAKEDEV for it to run properly on the host system.
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.
2002-04-07- remove a few obsolete textsMiod Vallat
- fix a few typo and layout issues - sync hardware lists - for sparc64, document the patch# for E220R eeprom
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.
2002-03-28One chunk of the ``you can't upgrade this'' sparc64 song which was forgottenMiod Vallat
the other day.
2002-03-23Hide upgrade stuff from the installation notes until sparc64 systems canMiod Vallat
be upgraded to 3.2.
2002-03-23Disable the ability to (U)pgrade a sparc64 installation.Kenneth R Westerback
Requested by deraadt@ for the 3.1 release. ok deraadt@
2002-02-07X11 is available for sparc64 now, and add RCSID.Miod Vallat
2001-12-08Update hardware list, fix a few typos as well.Miod Vallat
2001-11-07No more floppyB for the moment.Miod Vallat
2001-11-02- U2 has been testedMiod Vallat
- floppies have neither NFS nor CDROM support - add a section about firmware upgrades, and tell that they might be necessary, especially for U1/1E/2 systems. Pointed out from brad@, some of the information provided here comes from Sun's firmware update documentation.
2001-10-16Our bootable cd-rom is so good you don't have to say anything butMiod Vallat
``boot cdrom'', says jason@. ok deraadt@
2001-10-15The final round of sparc64 installation notes updates:Miod Vallat
- add miniroot and bootable cd-rom information - fix a few wordings - fix incorrect Solaris manual pages section names - replace a rip-off of boot_sparc(8) with a more adequate rip-off of boot_sparc64(8) The whole ok deraadt@
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.
2001-10-11More installation caveats:Miod Vallat
- some models (PCI mostly?) print a warning about the lack of counter-timer during boot, which can be safely ignored - using the floppy image as a miniroot, you might have to tell the kernel root and swap device information. Based on feedback from Jack Woehr <jax@purematrix.com>, thanks ! And now, a word from our sponsors: Are you reading source-changes@? Do you have full access to ultrasparc hardware? Now is your chance to become famous! Just try installing OpenBSD on your machine, by any method you can think of, and keep trying. Report your results to me (or sparc@), as well as errors or shortcomings in the installation notes, and your feedback might make it into the next set of installation notes, with appropriate credit!
2001-10-10Document the installation floppies, as well as the fact that floppy imagesMiod Vallat
can be used as poor man's miniroot.
2001-10-06Fix a few common typos and stuff related to tape installation.Miod Vallat
2001-10-02Remove dangling references (see section foo with no section foo).Miod Vallat
2001-10-02- prepare more commented out text to describe a future miniroot and a futureMiod Vallat
floppy (sync with sparc layout) - meanwhile, comment out one reference to floppy boot which escaped.
2001-10-01- update supported hardware listMiod Vallat
- remove more sparc'isms. The more you remove, the more there are... - describe more fun installation methods - fix a random typo
2001-10-01Update the description of the bsd.rd miniroot behaviour (it will askMiod Vallat
for a terminal first, then I/U/S). While there, remove a duplicated sentence on hp300 and add the complete bsd.rd installation description to the vax notes.
2001-09-27More issues clarified, thanks Jason !Miod Vallat
2001-09-24Bring the sparc64 installation notes in better shape, and closer toMiod Vallat
reality. Thanks to jason@ for hints and feedback.
2001-09-19stolen verbatim from sparc and only slightly modified from there... thisJason Wright
is going to need a LOT of work (any volunteers?)