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