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1 1.2.2.2 mellon Find your favorite disk partitioning utility. Any formatter capable of 2 1.2.2.2 mellon partitioning a SCSI disk should work. Some of the ones that have been 3 1.2.2.2 mellon tried and seem to work are: 4 1.2.2.3 mellon 5 1.2.2.3 mellon Apple HD SC Setup 6 1.2 ender Hard Disk ToolKit from FWB 7 1.2.2.2 mellon SCSI Director Lite 8 1.1 briggs Disk Manager Mac from OnTrack 9 1.1 briggs Silverlining from LaCie 10 1.1 briggs APS Disk Tools 11 1.1 briggs 12 1.2.2.2 mellon Apple's HD SC Setup is probably the easiest to use and the most commonly 13 1.2.2.2 mellon available. Instructions for patching HD SC Setup so that it will recognize 14 1.2.2.2 mellon non-Apple drives is available at: 15 1.2.2.3 mellon 16 1.2.2.2 mellon http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html 17 1.2.2.2 mellon 18 1.2.2.2 mellon First, you need to choose a drive on which to install NetBSD. Try to pick a 19 1.2.2.2 mellon drive with a low SCSI ID number, especially if you are likely to add or 20 1.2.2.2 mellon remove drives to your SCSI chain in the future. 21 1.2.2.2 mellon 22 1.2.2.2 mellon NOTE: BE SURE YOU HAVE A RELIABLE BACKUP OF ANY DATA WHICH YOU MAY WANT TO 23 1.2.2.2 mellon KEEP. REPARTITIONING YOUR HARD DRIVE IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO DESTROY 24 1.2.2.2 mellon IMPORTANT DATA. 25 1.2.2.2 mellon 26 1.2.2.2 mellon Second, decide how you want to set up your partitions. At minimum, you 27 1.2.2.2 mellon need a partition to hold the NetBSD installation (the root partition) and a 28 1.2.2.2 mellon partition to serve as swap. You may choose to use more than one partition 29 1.2.2.2 mellon to hold the installation. This allows you to separate the more vital 30 1.2.2.2 mellon portions of the filesystem (such as the kernel and the /etc directory) from 31 1.2.2.2 mellon the more volatile parts of the filesystem. Typical setups place the /usr 32 1.2.2.2 mellon directory on a separate partition from the root partition. Generally, the 33 1.2.2.2 mellon root partition can be fairly small while the /usr partition should be 34 1.2.2.2 mellon fairly large. If you plan to use this machine as a server, you may also 35 1.2.2.2 mellon want a separate /var partition. 36 1.2.2.2 mellon 37 1.2.2.2 mellon Once you have decided how to lay out your partitions, you need to calculate 38 1.2.2.2 mellon how much space to allocate to each partition. A minimal install of NetBSD 39 1.2.2.2 mellon (i.e. netbsd.tgz, base.tgz, and etc.tgz) should fit in a 30M partition. 40 1.2.2.2 mellon For a full installation, you should allocate at least 80M. A general rule 41 1.2.2.2 mellon of thumb for sizing the swap partition is to allocate twice as much swap 42 1.2.2.2 mellon space as you have real memory. Having your swap + real memory total at 43 1.2.2.2 mellon least 20M is also a good idea. Systems that will be heavily used or that 44 1.2.2.2 mellon are low on real memory should have more swap space allocated. Systems that 45 1.2.2.2 mellon will be only lightly used or have a very large amount of real memory can 46 1.2.2.2 mellon get away with less. 47 1.2 ender 48 1.2.2.2 mellon Next, use your favorite partitioning utility to make partitions of the 49 1.2.2.2 mellon necessary sizes. You can use any type of partition, but partitions of type 50 1.2.2.2 mellon "Apple_Free" might save you some confusion in the future. 51 1.1 briggs 52 1.1 briggs You are now set to install NetBSD on your hard drive. 53
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