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prep revision 1.1.2.2 
      1  1.1.2.2  jtc Before you start you should familiarize yourself with the boot PROM
      2  1.1.2.2  jtc of your machine.  The older Decstation 2100 and 3100 cannot select
      3  1.1.2.2  jtc a kernel from the command line. You need to set the bootpath
      4  1.1.2.2  jtc environment variable to point to the disk and kernel you intend to boot.
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      6  1.1.2.2  jtc You should also examine the guide on the NetBSD/pmax web site, which
      7  1.1.2.2  jtc has more complete and more up-to-date instructions than are given in
      8  1.1.2.2  jtc the install document.
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     10  1.1.2.2  jtc 	NOTE that the instructions on old versions of the web site
     11  1.1.2.2  jtc 	are incorrect. The installation miniroot image for both NetBSD 1.1
     12  1.1.2.2  jtc 	and 1.2 include the 8Kbytes reserved for bootblocks and disklabel.
     13  1.1.2.2  jtc 	The dd commands to write the miniroot to a freshly-labeleld
     14  1.1.2.2  jtc 	disk should have an 'skip=16' added to them, if the 'skip=16'
     15  1.1.2.2  jtc 	option is already present.
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     18  1.1.2.2  jtc If you're installing NetBSD/pmax for the first time it's a very good idea
     19  1.1.2.2  jtc to look at the partition sizes of disk you intend installing NetBSD on.
     20  1.1.2.2  jtc Changing the size of partitions after you've installed is difficult.
     21  1.1.2.2  jtc If you do not have a spare bootable disk, it may be simpler to  re-install
     22  1.1.2.2  jtc NetBSD again from scratch.
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     25  1.1.2.2  jtc Asumming a classic partition scheme with root (`/') and /usr filesystems,
     26  1.1.2.2  jtc a comfortable size for the NetBSD root filesystem partition is about 20MB;
     27  1.1.2.2  jtc a good initial size for the swap partition is twice the amount of physical
     28  1.1.2.2  jtc memory in your machine (though, unlike Ultrix, there are no restrictions on
     29  1.1.2.2  jtc the size of the swap partition that would render part of your memory
     30  1.1.2.2  jtc unusable). A full binary installation, without X11 or other additional
     31  1.1.2.2  jtc software, takes about 130MB in `/usr'.  This will be substantially reduced in
     32  1.1.2.2  jtc the next release with support fo dynamically-linked shared libraries.
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