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1 1.1 briggs Find your favorite disk partitioning utility. Some 2 1.1 briggs of the ones that have been tried and seem to work are: 3 1.1 briggs SCSI Directory Lite 4 1.1 briggs Disk Manager Mac from OnTrack 5 1.1 briggs HD SC Setup from Apple 6 1.1 briggs I/O Formatter from Diversified (?) 7 1.1 briggs Silverlining from LaCie 8 1.1 briggs APS Disk Tools 9 1.1 briggs 10 1.1 briggs The last can be found on any A/UX ftp site--for example: 11 1.1 briggs jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov:/pub/mac/APS273.sit.hqx, or 12 1.1 briggs dunkin.princeton.edu:/pub/jagubox/mac/APS273.sit.hqx. 13 1.1 briggs 14 1.1 briggs ** First, be sure you have a reliable backup of any data 15 1.1 briggs ** which you may want to keep. Repartitioning your hard 16 1.1 briggs ** drive is an excellent way to destroy important data. 17 1.1 briggs 18 1.1 briggs Second, use your favorite partitioning utility to make 19 1.1 briggs at least an A/UX "Root & Usr" partition and an A/UX "Swap" 20 1.1 briggs partition. The "Root & Usr" partition should be _at least_ 21 1.1 briggs 50MB in size if you wish to install everything. Generally, 22 1.1 briggs you should allocate twice as much swap space as you have real 23 1.1 briggs memory (so, if you have 8MB of RAM, specify 16MB of swap space). 24 1.1 briggs Systems that will be heavily used or that are low on real 25 1.1 briggs memory should have more swap space allocated. Systems that 26 1.1 briggs will be only lightly used can get away with less. 27 1.1 briggs 28 1.1 briggs If you like, you can also create a smaller root partition 29 1.1 briggs and a larger /usr. If you plan to use this machine as a 30 1.1 briggs server, you may also want a separate /var. Create these 31 1.1 briggs partitions as the BSD "usr" or "User slice X" type. 32 1.1 briggs 33 1.1 briggs You are now set to install NetBSD on your hard drive. 34
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