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