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1 1.2 ender Find your favorite disk partitioning utility. Any formatter 2 1.2 ender capable of partitioning a SCSI disk should work. Some 3 1.1 briggs of the ones that have been tried and seem to work are: 4 1.2 ender HD SC Setup from Apple 5 1.2 ender Hard Disk ToolKit from FWB 6 1.1 briggs SCSI Directory Lite 7 1.1 briggs Disk Manager Mac from OnTrack 8 1.1 briggs Silverlining from LaCie 9 1.1 briggs APS Disk Tools 10 1.1 briggs 11 1.2 ender Apple's HD SC Setup is probably the easiest to use and the most 12 1.2 ender commonly available. Instructions for patching HD SC Setup 13 1.2 ender so that it will recognize non-Apple drives is available at: 14 1.2 ender http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html 15 1.2 ender 16 1.2 ender First, you need to choose a drive on which to install NetBSD. 17 1.2 ender Try to pick a drive with a low SCSI ID number, especially if you 18 1.2 ender are likely to add or remove drives to your SCSI chain in the 19 1.2 ender future. 20 1.1 briggs 21 1.3 ender NOTE: BE SURE YOU HAVE A RELIABLE BACKUP OF ANY DATA WHICH YOU 22 1.3 ender MAY WANT TO KEEP. REPARTITIONING YOUR HARD DRIVE IS AN EXCELLENT 23 1.3 ender WAY TO DESTROY IMPORTANT DATA. 24 1.1 briggs 25 1.2 ender Second, decide how you want to set up your partitions. At 26 1.2 ender minimum, you need a partition to hold the NetBSD installation (the 27 1.2 ender root partition) and a partition to serve as swap. You may choose 28 1.2 ender to use more than one partition to hold the installation. This 29 1.2 ender allows you to separate the more vital portions of the filesystem 30 1.2 ender (such as the kernel and the /etc directory) from the more volatile 31 1.2 ender parts of the filesystem. Typical setups place the /usr directory 32 1.2 ender on a separate partition from the root partition. Generally, the 33 1.2 ender root partition can be fairly small while the /usr partition should 34 1.2 ender be fairly large. If you plan to use this machine as a server, you 35 1.2 ender may also want a separate /var partition. 36 1.2 ender 37 1.2 ender Once you have decided how to lay out your partitions, you need 38 1.2 ender calculate how much space to allocate to each partition. A minimal 39 1.2 ender install of NetBSD (i.e. netbsd13, base13, and etc13) should fit in 40 1.2 ender a 30M partition. For a full installation, you should allocate at 41 1.2 ender least 80M. A general rule of thumb for sizing the swap partition 42 1.2 ender is to allocate twice as much swap space as you have real memory. 43 1.2 ender Having your swap + real memory total at least 20M is also a good 44 1.2 ender ideo. Systems that will be heavily used or that are low on real 45 1.1 briggs memory should have more swap space allocated. Systems that 46 1.2 ender will be only lightly used or have a very large amount of real 47 1.2 ender memory can get away with less. 48 1.2 ender 49 1.2 ender Next, use your favorite partitioning utility to make partitions of 50 1.2 ender the necessary sizes. You can use any type of partition, but 51 1.2 ender partitions of type "Apple_Free" might save you some confusion in 52 1.2 ender the future. 53 1.1 briggs 54 1.1 briggs You are now set to install NetBSD on your hard drive. 55
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