Update for 7.3.

There have been no floppy images since the 6.2 release. Remove mention
of boot floppies from the INSTALL.alpha notes.
ok deraadt@

text improvements from evan silberman;

tweaked along the way by at least myself and tj;
ok tj deraadt

A first shot at MOP boot instructions.

you are still welcome to install from tape, but as befits an elite master
of unix arcana, we will not condescend to tell you how. why spoil the fun?

committing uwe's autoinstall notes, as requested by deraadt;

Stop using the name `miniroot' when `bsd.rd' is implied. A few platforms
have a real miniroot to be dd'ed to the disk, and that's fine; but when
we are talking about booting bsd.rd (either from an ex

Stop using the name `miniroot' when `bsd.rd' is implied. A few platforms
have a real miniroot to be dd'ed to the disk, and that's fine; but when
we are talking about booting bsd.rd (either from an existing setup, or the
network, or the cd-rom images), then refer to it as `installation kernel'.

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Usual release distrib/notes churning. ok deraadt@

Jumbo commit for 4.7 installation instructions:
- do not mention tape as an installation media on systems where it is very
unlikely that a tape drive can be connected to (i.e. anything with only

Jumbo commit for 4.7 installation instructions:
- do not mention tape as an installation media on systems where it is very
unlikely that a tape drive can be connected to (i.e. anything with only
USB as expansion capabilities)
- do not mention that fetching the installation sets from a partition is
``for upgrades only''. You may do this for installation, but of course
you can not use a partition which will be newfs'ed for that purpose.
- mention ext2fs partitions as possible installation sets source only on
platforms where the installation media actually can mount an ext2fs
filesystem.
- stress the fact that the sparc miniroot image is a GENERIC kernel with
a little on-disk filesystem, and not a RAMDISK kernel with a little
in-memory filesystem, and thus must not be overwritten during installation
(i.e. be careful if you repartition the disk the miniroot has been put on).
- more conv=sync -> conv=osync for tape setup instructions.
- model-specific layout changes on armish, loongson and socppc instructions.
- fix various typos and grammar mistaeks.

"sure" deraadt@ (without eyeballing)

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Better disk partitioning details, especially for MBR + disklabel or
HFS + disklabel setups.

Try to catch up with installer changes in the installation notes.
Also, the per-platform features are moved to a common place, which makes
the MD layout easier to work on. m4.common is still a tangle

Try to catch up with installer changes in the installation notes.
Also, the per-platform features are moved to a common place, which makes
the MD layout easier to work on. m4.common is still a tangled mess of subtly
placed dnl, though...

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Jumbo update of installation notes for alpha:
- mention more models supported by each floppy
- mention more supported and unsupported models
- sync cdrom boot instructions with reality
- update ftp u

Jumbo update of installation notes for alpha:
- mention more models supported by each floppy
- mention more supported and unsupported models
- sync cdrom boot instructions with reality
- update ftp urls, ftp.digital.com no longer exist (but I resisted whining
at HP which does not provide all the contents formerly available from
ftp.digital.com and which you have to pick from educational sites which
have mirrored them)
- various little rewording

with help from sobrado@

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Better description of the installation steps:
- document questions in proper order: hostname before network configuration,
DNS only if network is configured, sshd and ntpd, aperture only on
machi

Better description of the installation steps:
- document questions in proper order: hostname before network configuration,
DNS only if network is configured, sshd and ntpd, aperture only on
machines which need it, serial console only on machines which need it.
This is done by splitting the end of OpenBSDCommonURL in various
macros, OpenBSDInstallWrapup, OpenBSDInstallAperture, OpenBSDInstallConsole
and OpenBSDInstallWrapupPart2.
- use the above macros when appropriate, OpenBSDInstallWrapup* being
mandatory on all arches.
- remove serial console configuration blurb on sparc and sparc64, it is
handled by OpenBSDInstallConsole now.

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Tweak dhcpd configuration to please old DEC 3000 SRM; reported by
Maurice Janssen, thanks!

Your spring jumbo m4-fu. This time:
- mention comp contains an objective-C compiler too.
- rewrite InstallPrelude so that it will only output the ``know your drive
geometry'' blurb if asked to, and

Your spring jumbo m4-fu. This time:
- mention comp contains an objective-C compiler too.
- rewrite InstallPrelude so that it will only output the ``know your drive
geometry'' blurb if asked to, and for a specified disk type. Use it for
non-IDE and non-SCSI disks only, otherwise the kernel is good enough to
do the job without the users' help.
- similarily, adapt BootMsgs to make the second part of the geometry blurb
optional, and to accept up to three disk types. Use this to report better
disk names (i.e. no point saying an scsi disk would show up as sd0 on
platforms which can't have scsi disks, or won't be able to boot from them).
- in InstallPart4, drop the part about block and fragment sizes in
disklabel. The defaults are good, and you won't get to change them unless
you switched to expert mode.
- the default answer to ``wanna get the ftp mirror list, unzel?'' is ``no'',
so pressing enter to get it is not enough anymore (-:

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need bootparams for root path on NFS server

ok henning@

Update sets size, and a few tweaks; also size of files smaller than 1MB
get printed in KB now; ok mickey@ deraadt@

first shot at alpha netbooting docs; deraadt@ ok

Sync with reality

grammar, consistency fixes, and typos;
ok miod@

typos and consistency fixes;
ok miod@

Tweak a few texts to cope with the fact that we ship official OpenBSD CD-ROM
and bootable CD-ROM mini images on some platforms, too. Mention such a mini
image for alpha, consistent spelling of CD-ROM

Tweak a few texts to cope with the fact that we ship official OpenBSD CD-ROM
and bootable CD-ROM mini images on some platforms, too. Mention such a mini
image for alpha, consistent spelling of CD-ROM, and a few minor updates not
worth mentioning I had lying in my tree.

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Add specific installation steps for DEC 3000 machines, and document a few
caveats from their v.1 SRM.

Since the installation procedure will list all the supported media flags
via ifconfig -m, there is no need to suggest canonical media flags on
some arches, especially since the end user might have a

Since the installation procedure will list all the supported media flags
via ifconfig -m, there is no need to suggest canonical media flags on
some arches, especially since the end user might have a different
interface with different flags; instead, be more cosy and mention that
looking at the manual page for the interface might be helpful for
desperate cases.

Thus, merge the OpenBSDInstallNet and OpenBSDInstallNet2 macros, and
remove thde in-between text for the arches that had such a paragraph.

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- more SRM firmware information (how to switch to SRM, boot -fi, boot -fl)
- correct upgrade information (do it yourself)