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