the RELEASE NOTES.
Adaptec controllers are now 154x and 174x series, no more reference
to specific models. Revamp the CSI hard disk controller section in
general to be more user readable.
Add the fact that the Mitsumi CDROM controller and drive are now
supported.
Add a note that the Intel 82501 serial chip is NOT supported.
Floppy controller is fd0, not fdc0, same for wd disk controller.
running portmapper. These are site specific functionality and should only
be enabled for sites that want them, not by default.
These services REQUIRE portmapper to be running
with a Makefile override. The default is floppy5 since all distribution
floppies must be <= 1.2Mb so that every one can use them.
If you want to make 1.44MB floppies with more space on them do a
setenv FLOPPY floppy3
before running make.
>From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh%whisker.lotus.ie@dec4ie.ieunet.ie>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1993 05:11:51 -0700
I went to make myself some boot floppies straight off the dist
today and ran into the fact that I'm using a 3.5" floppy as my drive A,
so I did the following (you can still use floppy5 as your default -
I just have it set to floppy3 for my machine).
files from a MS-DOS partition.
Minor cleanup:
fixed spelling error in inst1.install
capitalized sentences in kc.profile
reworded initial load_fd options
partition of the boot disk. So we have yet another medium via
which to load the FreeBSD distribution files. load_fd() has
options for listing and (if reading from the C: drive) changing
directories.
load_fd's notation assumes that the first Primary partition on
disk is the DOS drive C: (since this and only this one is mounted
by install). Otherwise, the notation may be a bit confusing.
We'll know the assumption is bad if people complain about
not finding files on their "C:" drive...
Added a device file existence check to kc.profile.
first) Primary (un-Extended) DOS partition, providing /dev/xx0h
is available. It is mounted on /dos by default. The /etc/fstab
entry omits the dump and fsck fields, i.e.:
/dev/xx0h /dos pcfs rw
The Secondary DOS partition is not used (System ID 0xF2), because I don't
know what that is.
2) Fixed default sizes so that if someone attempts to install BSD on a 24 Mb
partition by accepting defaults, they don't end up with a 1 Mb /usr
partition (up to USRMIN Mb's). In this case, all space is split between
swap and root.
TODO:
1) Extend load_fd() to support loading distribution files directly from
the DOS partition of the hard disk.
2) Provide translated parameters to the install program (maybe
add an option to fdisk). Currently, the true geometry is used as
default, which is inappropriate for coexistence with DOS.
3) Support installing on multiple or secondary disks.
>Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 23:35:48 -0700 (PDT)
There is a typo in disktab in the NetBSD-0.9 distribution. This may be
already fixed in NetBSD-current, but it's not in any of the source that I've
sup'ed.
line 9 reads:
# sc #sectors/cylinder, nc*nt default
should read:
# sc #sectors/cylinder, ns*nt default
Before starting, it is important to know your hard disk's geometry
(i.e., number of cylinders, heads and sectors/track). If installing
FreeBSD on the same disk as another operating system, then the
two systems should use the same geometry. In particular, FreeBSD's
default geometry is inappropriate for MS-DOS. So in this case, the
DOS geometry should be used instead.
[This seems to be true for SCSI disks. What about IDE? With the new
boot blocks, can we ignore the disks true geometry??]
offsets and sizes in units of cylinders. This will help
those who want to install FreeBSD between two existing
partitions.
Faked notes on installing via Kermit
