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* spelling/grammar fixestj2020-07-051-2/+2
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* Change install images called *.fs to *.img. These are UFS filesystem images,deraadt2020-05-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | but additionally have a bootblock in the first 8K (since UFS does not use that space). There are some UEFI direct-from-internet bootloaders that require the name *.img. So this makes things more convenient for those, while keeping it consistant in all architectures. ok kettenis beck kn
* remove/tweak some cd-related text.tj2017-03-041-3/+3
| | | | ok deraadt
* Remove `installing from SunOS' and `installing from Solaris' instructions.miod2015-03-271-94/+1
| | | | | | | | | 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.
* No more etc set, also sparc nowadays needs more than 16MB to boot multiuser.miod2015-01-111-5/+5
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* you are still welcome to install from tape, but as befits an elite mastertedu2014-03-191-4/+2
| | | | of unix arcana, we will not condescend to tell you how. why spoil the fun?
* committing uwe's autoinstall notes, as requested by deraadt;jmc2013-12-041-1/+5
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* Do not suggest changing boot-file to boot the SMP kernel, since the installermiod2013-12-041-6/+1
| | | | sets up /bsd as the SMP kernel on SMP systems; jkatz
* no more misc setderaadt2010-10-181-4/+4
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* Jumbo commit for 4.7 installation instructions:miod2010-03-161-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - 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)
* Better disk partitioning details, especially for MBR + disklabel ormiod2009-05-131-4/+2
| | | | HFS + disklabel setups.
* Try to catch up with installer changes in the installation notes.miod2009-05-121-20/+6
| | | | | | 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...
* Better description of the installation steps:miod2008-08-051-21/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - 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.
* Suggest vt220 as a TERM value for serial-console-in-an-xterm setup everywheremiod2008-03-101-9/+4
| | | | instead of a mix of vt100 and vt220.
* Your spring jumbo m4-fu. This time:miod2007-03-011-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - 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 (-:
* typo, ablt -> ablebrad2005-08-101-2/+2
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* apparently some ultra machines do need this, work by miod; testing my uwederaadt2005-08-091-7/+5
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* Preliminary support for the floppy drive on Ultrasparcs. Only tested onmiod2005-03-091-7/+2
| | | | | | | | | | SBus machines so far, although EBus attachment glue is provided but not enabled by default. Also, fdformat(8) does not work correctly yet, although reading and writing is safe; this will hopefully be fixed in the near future. ok deraadt@
* Problems with Blade100 network installs/upgrades usingkrw2005-01-151-10/+1
| | | | | | keyboard+monitor seem to have disappeared post-3.6. ok miod@.
* grammar, consistency fixes, and typos;jmc2004-03-171-19/+19
| | | | ok miod@
* typos and consistency fixes;jmc2004-03-161-8/+8
| | | | ok miod@
* be accurate now that SunOS compat output does not exist in MAKEDEV; ok miod@todd2004-02-091-12/+2
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* There were a couple of mistakes in the "installing from solaris" sectionmiod2003-10-011-7/+6
| | | | reported on sparc@.
* i386: Some more verbiage around i386 a.out -> ELF upgrades.krw2003-09-071-1/+9
| | | | | | | Sparc64: Mention Blade 100 problems with upgrading over the network vs non-serial console. ok miod@.
* Various typos and inaccuracies; David Krausemiod2003-01-041-2/+2
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* Do not mention NFS as a possible tarballs source when the installation mediamiod2002-12-301-4/+2
| | | | does not support NFS mounts.
* Document upgrades on sparc64 again, and tweak a few things.miod2002-10-031-22/+3
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* Do not suggest the use of the floppy images as poor man's miniroot anymore.miod2002-06-301-2/+2
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* knftodd2002-06-091-5/+5
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* Our m4 generated MAKEDEV will eventually be less SunOS-friendly than theymiod2002-04-171-2/+3
| | | | | | 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.
* Since the installation procedure will list all the supported media flagsmiod2002-04-091-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* - remove a few obsolete textsmiod2002-04-071-7/+2
| | | | | | - fix a few typo and layout issues - sync hardware lists - for sparc64, document the patch# for E220R eeprom
* Factorize more common texts from the ramdisk operation.miod2002-03-301-67/+10
| | | | | No text changes except for harmonization, and the blurb about network interface flags has bene slightly changed for some arches.
* One chunk of the ``you can't upgrade this'' sparc64 song which was forgottenmiod2002-03-281-1/+5
| | | | the other day.
* Hide upgrade stuff from the installation notes until sparc64 systems canmiod2002-03-231-2/+4
| | | | be upgraded to 3.2.
* Disable the ability to (U)pgrade a sparc64 installation.krw2002-03-231-3/+4
| | | | | | Requested by deraadt@ for the 3.1 release. ok deraadt@
* X11 is available for sparc64 now, and add RCSID.miod2002-02-071-0/+2
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* Update hardware list, fix a few typos as well.miod2001-12-081-6/+8
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* No more floppyB for the moment.miod2001-11-071-1/+1
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* - U2 has been testedmiod2001-11-021-0/+4
| | | | | | | - 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.
* Our bootable cd-rom is so good you don't have to say anything butmiod2001-10-161-1/+1
| | | | | ``boot cdrom'', says jason@. ok deraadt@
* The final round of sparc64 installation notes updates:miod2001-10-151-37/+28
| | | | | | | | | | - 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@
* Solaris friendly update!miod2001-10-141-2/+94
| | | | | | | | | | - 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.
* More installation caveats:miod2001-10-111-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - 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!
* Document the installation floppies, as well as the fact that floppy imagesmiod2001-10-101-47/+42
| | | | can be used as poor man's miniroot.
* Fix a few common typos and stuff related to tape installation.miod2001-10-061-7/+4
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* Remove dangling references (see section foo with no section foo).miod2001-10-021-23/+0
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* - prepare more commented out text to describe a future miniroot and a futuremiod2001-10-021-4/+11
| | | | | floppy (sync with sparc layout) - meanwhile, comment out one reference to floppy boot which escaped.
* - update supported hardware listmiod2001-10-011-9/+11
| | | | | | - remove more sparc'isms. The more you remove, the more there are... - describe more fun installation methods - fix a random typo
* Update the description of the bsd.rd miniroot behaviour (it will askmiod2001-10-011-6/+7
| | | | | | 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.
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