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1 Find your favorite disk partitioning utility. Any formatter capable of 2 partitioning a SCSI disk should work. Some of the ones that have been 3 tried and seem to work are: 4 HD SC Setup from Apple 5 Hard Disk ToolKit from FWB 6 SCSI Director Lite 7 Disk Manager Mac from OnTrack 8 Silverlining from LaCie 9 APS Disk Tools 10 11 <<<<<<< prep 12 Apple's HD SC Setup is probably the easiest to use and the most commonly 13 available. Instructions for patching HD SC Setup so that it will recognize 14 non-Apple drives is available at: 15 http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html 16 17 First, you need to choose a drive on which to install NetBSD. Try to pick a 18 drive with a low SCSI ID number, especially if you are likely to add or 19 remove drives to your SCSI chain in the future. 20 21 NOTE: BE SURE YOU HAVE A RELIABLE BACKUP OF ANY DATA WHICH YOU MAY WANT TO 22 KEEP. REPARTITIONING YOUR HARD DRIVE IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO DESTROY 23 IMPORTANT DATA. 24 25 Second, decide how you want to set up your partitions. At minimum, you 26 need a partition to hold the NetBSD installation (the root partition) and a 27 partition to serve as swap. You may choose to use more than one partition 28 to hold the installation. This allows you to separate the more vital 29 portions of the filesystem (such as the kernel and the /etc directory) from 30 the more volatile parts of the filesystem. Typical setups place the /usr 31 directory on a separate partition from the root partition. Generally, the 32 root partition can be fairly small while the /usr partition should be 33 fairly large. If you plan to use this machine as a server, you may also 34 want a separate /var partition. 35 36 Once you have decided how to lay out your partitions, you need to calculate 37 how much space to allocate to each partition. A minimal install of NetBSD 38 (i.e. netbsd.tgz, base.tgz, and etc.tgz) should fit in a 30M partition. 39 For a full installation, you should allocate at least 80M. A general rule 40 of thumb for sizing the swap partition is to allocate twice as much swap 41 space as you have real memory. Having your swap + real memory total at 42 least 20M is also a good idea. Systems that will be heavily used or that 43 are low on real memory should have more swap space allocated. Systems that 44 will be only lightly used or have a very large amount of real memory can 45 get away with less. 46 ||||||| 1.2 47 Apple's HD SC Setup is probably the easiest to use and the most 48 commonly available. Instructions for patching HD SC Setup 49 so that it will recognize non-Apple drives is available at: 50 http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html 51 52 First, you need to choose a drive on which to install NetBSD. 53 Try to pick a drive with a low SCSI ID number, especially if you 54 are likely to add or remove drives to your SCSI chain in the 55 future. 56 57 ** NOTE: be sure you have a reliable backup of any data 58 ** which you may want to keep. Repartitioning your hard 59 ** drive is an excellent way to destroy important data. 60 61 Second, decide how you want to set up your partitions. At 62 minimum, you need a partition to hold the NetBSD installation (the 63 root partition) and a partition to serve as swap. You may choose 64 to use more than one partition to hold the installation. This 65 allows you to separate the more vital portions of the filesystem 66 (such as the kernel and the /etc directory) from the more volatile 67 parts of the filesystem. Typical setups place the /usr directory 68 on a separate partition from the root partition. Generally, the 69 root partition can be fairly small while the /usr partition should 70 be fairly large. If you plan to use this machine as a server, you 71 may also want a separate /var partition. 72 73 Once you have decided how to lay out your partitions, you need 74 calculate how much space to allocate to each partition. A minimal 75 install of NetBSD (i.e. netbsd13, base13, and etc13) should fit in 76 a 30M partition. For a full installation, you should allocate at 77 least 80M. A general rule of thumb for sizing the swap partition 78 is to allocate twice as much swap space as you have real memory. 79 Having your swap + real memory total at least 20M is also a good 80 ideo. Systems that will be heavily used or that are low on real 81 memory should have more swap space allocated. Systems that 82 will be only lightly used or have a very large amount of real 83 memory can get away with less. 84 ======= 85 Apple's HD SC Setup is probably the easiest to use and the most 86 commonly available. Instructions for patching HD SC Setup 87 so that it will recognize non-Apple drives is available at: 88 http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html 89 90 First, you need to choose a drive on which to install NetBSD. 91 Try to pick a drive with a low SCSI ID number, especially if you 92 are likely to add or remove drives to your SCSI chain in the 93 future. 94 95 NOTE: BE SURE YOU HAVE A RELIABLE BACKUP OF ANY DATA WHICH YOU 96 MAY WANT TO KEEP. REPARTITIONING YOUR HARD DRIVE IS AN EXCELLENT 97 WAY TO DESTROY IMPORTANT DATA. 98 99 Second, decide how you want to set up your partitions. At 100 minimum, you need a partition to hold the NetBSD installation (the 101 root partition) and a partition to serve as swap. You may choose 102 to use more than one partition to hold the installation. This 103 allows you to separate the more vital portions of the filesystem 104 (such as the kernel and the /etc directory) from the more volatile 105 parts of the filesystem. Typical setups place the /usr directory 106 on a separate partition from the root partition. Generally, the 107 root partition can be fairly small while the /usr partition should 108 be fairly large. If you plan to use this machine as a server, you 109 may also want a separate /var partition. 110 111 Once you have decided how to lay out your partitions, you need 112 calculate how much space to allocate to each partition. A minimal 113 install of NetBSD (i.e. netbsd13, base13, and etc13) should fit in 114 a 30M partition. For a full installation, you should allocate at 115 least 80M. A general rule of thumb for sizing the swap partition 116 is to allocate twice as much swap space as you have real memory. 117 Having your swap + real memory total at least 20M is also a good 118 ideo. Systems that will be heavily used or that are low on real 119 memory should have more swap space allocated. Systems that 120 will be only lightly used or have a very large amount of real 121 memory can get away with less. 122 >>>>>>> 1.3 123 124 Next, use your favorite partitioning utility to make partitions of the 125 necessary sizes. You can use any type of partition, but partitions of type 126 "Apple_Free" might save you some confusion in the future. 127 128 You are now set to install NetBSD on your hard drive. 129
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