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2015-06-10FTP as an install method kicked the bucket some time ago.Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
ok miod@
2015-03-27Missing `unattended installation' chunk.Miod Vallat
2015-03-27Remove `installing from SunOS' and `installing from Solaris' instructions.Miod Vallat
They are much more troublesome than using the miniroot, and if you're actually still running a SunOS setup in 2015, then you're me, and you don't need to be told this information anyway. Do not suggest disks might be shared between OpenBSD and SunOS or Solaris anymore. This is just asking for trouble.
2015-03-27Fix horrible typo in the sun4e netboot instructions causing them to beMiod Vallat
ineffective.
2015-01-11No more etc set, also sparc nowadays needs more than 16MB to boot multiuser.Miod Vallat
2014-11-10etc and xetc sets no longer exist in the release directoriesJonathan Gray
2014-07-29update sets sizesMiod Vallat
2014-03-19you are still welcome to install from tape, but as befits an elite masterTed Unangst
of unix arcana, we will not condescend to tell you how. why spoil the fun?
2014-02-28update sets sizesMiod Vallat
2014-02-27some other places it may help to know how to burn an isoTed Unangst
2014-02-27Delete horrifically out of data add-on-peripheral lists; there are otherTheo de Raadt
places to check for this information, or trial and error, with error resulting in things getting fixed. Scary false warnings don't help anyone. Unmaintainable lists are always unmaintained.
2013-09-15mention NVSIMMMiod Vallat
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.
2013-02-09Stop using the name `miniroot' when `bsd.rd' is implied. A few platformsMiod Vallat
have a real miniroot to be dd'ed to the disk, and that's fine; but when we are talking about booting bsd.rd (either from an existing setup, or the network, or the cd-rom images), then refer to it as `installation kernel'.
2011-08-08Usual release distrib/notes churning. ok deraadt@Miod Vallat
2011-06-15Stop providing a bsd.scsi3 kernel on sparc. If you have a system with multipleMiod Vallat
disks and scsi id#3 as the boot device, by all means, use DUIDs to mount your filesystems and it won't matter what sd unit number the boot disk attaches with.
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.
2011-03-09Mention need for 512-byte CDROM drive on older SPARCs, discussed w/ miod@ ok ↵Ian Darwin
krw@
2010-10-18the misc set went awayTheo de Raadt
2010-07-10sun4e bitsMiod Vallat
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)
2010-03-07Update sets sizes.Miod Vallat
2010-02-23Attack of the Clones.Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
2009-10-10Fix a quoting typo in commentsMiod Vallat
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...
2009-02-28Update sets sizes.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.
2008-04-15It turns out the mysterious chip with the heatsink glued on, found on mgxMiod Vallat
video boards, is a known entity, so add support for 2d acceleration with the help of the X code (which makes baby Jesus cry). The blitter is fast enough to make a cgsix feel as slow as a cgthree in comparison.
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
2008-02-23update the list of supported wireless devices;Jason McIntyre
2007-08-30oops; t.stritzky@teles.de noted that we had not yet documented theTheo de Raadt
install##.iso files; thanks
2007-04-13GENERIC can not run in 8MB anymore.Miod Vallat
2007-03-08spelling fixes; ok deraadt@David Krause
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 (-:
2007-03-01Spell ``miniroot'' consistently.Miod Vallat
2006-03-23avoid saying format() because of the new gnu m4 extensions. this is crazyTheo de Raadt
2006-02-28Update sets sizes; ok deraadt@Miod Vallat
2005-11-04Pretec Compact WLAN OC-WLBXX-AUwe Stuehler
2005-09-14sync list of CF wi(4) devices.Jonathan Gray
Incorporates diffs from PRs 4499 & 4500 which were submitted by barryg-openbsd-bugs at kssp.upd.edu.ph
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@
2005-04-27[sS]parc -> SPARC when not talking about a port.Jonathan Gray
ok brad@ miod@
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 auto-boot switch; deraadt@ okMichael Shalayeff