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- From: lurch@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Liersch)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Easy Install for 386bsd with more swap space!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.040755.2247@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 04:07:55 GMT
- Sender: news@lugb.latrobe.edu.au (USENET News System)
- Organization: Department of Electronic Engineering, La Trobe University
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- Here is an easier way to install 386bsd with a larger swap space and/or
- a real partitioning scheme.
-
- NOTE: Steps marked with a (*) can be skipped if a separate usr partition
- is not required!
-
- 1. Boot the fixit.fs floppy.
- 2. Make the floppy writable:
- mount -u /dev/fd0a /
- 3. Make some space on the floppy:
- rm [A-Z]*
- 4. Make a disktab entry with a seperate usr partition if needed:
- vi /etc/disktab
- 5. Disklabel the hard disk:
- disklabel -w -r wd0 "drivename"
- 6. Prepare the root partition:
- newfs /dev/rwd0a
- 7.(*) Prepare the usr partition if necessary:
- newfs /dev/rwd0h
- mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
- mkdir /mnt/usr
- mkdir /mnt/sbin
- mkdir /mnt/dev
- cd /usr/distbin
- ls *mount | cpio -pdalmu /mnt/sbin
- cd /dev
- ls * | cpio -pdalmu /mnt/dev
- 8. Shutdown and remove the fixit.fs floppy:
- shutdown
- 9. Boot the dist.fs floppy.
- 10. Mount the root partition:
- mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
- 11.(*) Mount the usr partition if necessary:
- mount /mnt/dev/wd0h /mnt/usr
- 12. Install the binaries:
- zcat /etc/baselist.Z | cpio -pdalmu /mnt
- cd /mnt
- zcat /etc/baseutils.cpio.Z | cpio -idalmu
- 13. Shutdown and remove the dist.fs floppy:
- shutdown
- 14. Boot off the hard disk.
- 15. Make the root partition writable:
- mount -u /dev/wd0a /
- 16.(*) Mount the usr partition if necessary:
- mount /dev/wd0h /usr
- 17. Read the install notes in the root directory:
- zmore INSTALL.NOTES
- 18. (i) If you have not got a seperate usr partition the install the
- binary and other distributions as per the INSTALL.NOTES.
- (ii) If you have got a seperate usr partition then install the binary
- distribution as follows:
- mkdir /usr/tmp
- cd /usr/tmp
- Get the binary distribution to here as per the INSTALL.NOTES.
- cd /
- cat /usr/tmp/bin01* | uncompress | cpio -idalmu
- sh /tmp/install.bin01
- 19. Create the file /etc/fstab:
- vi /etc/fstab
- and add the following line(s):
- /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1
- /dev/wd0h /usr ufs rw 1 2
- 20. Get to work!
-
- I hope that this is helpful to someone.
-
- Lurch
-
- lurch@ee.latrobe.edu.au
-