1The miniroot's install program is very simple to use. It will guide 2you through the entire process, and is well automated. Additional 3improvements are planned for future releases. 4 5The miniroot's install program will: 6 7 * Allow you to place disklabels on additional disks. 8 Note that partition sizes and offsets are expressed 9 in sectors. When you fill out the disklabel, you will 10 need to specify partition types and filesystem parameters. 11 If you're unsure what the these values should be, use the 12 following: 13 14 fstype: 4.2BSD 15 fsize: 1024 16 bsize: 4096 17 cpg: 16 18 19 If the partition will be a swap partition, use the following: 20 21 fstype: swap 22 fsize: 0 (or blank) 23 bsize: 0 (or blank) 24 cpg: 0 (or blank) 25 26 You will also need to specify the number of partitions. 27 The number of partitions is determined by the `index' of 28 the last partition letter, where a == 1, b == 2, etc. 29 Therefore, if the last filled partition is partition `g', 30 there are 7 partitions. Any partitions with size of 0 31 may be removed from the list. 32 33 If the disk is the boot disk, you _must_ offset the root 34 partition (`a') one cylinder, as the hp300 boot code 35 if large enough to spill past the label area. In this case, 36 the `c' partition must be fstype `boot'. 37 38 Anything after a `#' is a comment. 39 40 The following is an example disklabel partition map: 41 427 partitions: 43# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] 44 a: 30912 448 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1 - 69) 45 b: 130816 31360 swap # (Cyl. 70 - 361) 46 c: 1296512 0 boot # (Cyl. 0 - 2893) 47 e: 81984 162176 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 362 - 544) 48 f: 102592 244160 4.2BSD 1024 4096 16 # (Cyl. 545 - 773) 49 g: 949760 346752 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 774 - 2893) 50 51 * Create filesystems on target partitions. 52 53 * Allow you to set up your system's network configuration. 54 Remember to specify host names without the domain name 55 appended to the end. For example use `foo' instead of 56 `foo.bar.org'. If, during the process of configuring 57 the network interfaces, you make a mistake, you will 58 be able to re-configure that interface by simply selecting 59 it for configuration again. 60 61 * Mount target filesystems. You will be given the opportunity 62 to manually edit the resulting /etc/fstab. 63 64 * Extract binary sets from the media of your choice. 65 66 * Copy configuration information gathered during the 67 installation process to your root filesystem. 68 69 * Make device nodes in your root filesystem. 70 71 * Copy a new kernel onto your root partition. 72 73 * Install a new boot block. 74 75 * Check your filesystems for integrity. 76 77First-time installation on a system through a method other than the 78installation program is possible, but strongly discouraged. 79