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1Find your favorite disk partitioning utility. Any formatter capable of 2partitioning a SCSI disk should work. Some of the ones that have been 3tried and seem to work are: 4 HD SC Setup from Apple 5 Hard Disk ToolKit from FWB 6 SCSI Director Lite 7 Disk Manager Mac from OnTrack 8 Silverlining from LaCie 9 APS Disk Tools 10 11<<<<<<< prep 12Apple's HD SC Setup is probably the easiest to use and the most commonly 13available. Instructions for patching HD SC Setup so that it will recognize 14non-Apple drives is available at: 15 http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html 16 17First, you need to choose a drive on which to install NetBSD. Try to pick a 18drive with a low SCSI ID number, especially if you are likely to add or 19remove drives to your SCSI chain in the future. 20 21NOTE: BE SURE YOU HAVE A RELIABLE BACKUP OF ANY DATA WHICH YOU MAY WANT TO 22KEEP. REPARTITIONING YOUR HARD DRIVE IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO DESTROY 23IMPORTANT DATA. 24 25Second, decide how you want to set up your partitions. At minimum, you 26need a partition to hold the NetBSD installation (the root partition) and a 27partition to serve as swap. You may choose to use more than one partition 28to hold the installation. This allows you to separate the more vital 29portions of the filesystem (such as the kernel and the /etc directory) from 30the more volatile parts of the filesystem. Typical setups place the /usr 31directory on a separate partition from the root partition. Generally, the 32root partition can be fairly small while the /usr partition should be 33fairly large. If you plan to use this machine as a server, you may also 34want a separate /var partition. 35 36Once you have decided how to lay out your partitions, you need to calculate 37how much space to allocate to each partition. A minimal install of NetBSD 38(i.e. netbsd.tgz, base.tgz, and etc.tgz) should fit in a 30M partition. 39For a full installation, you should allocate at least 80M. A general rule 40of thumb for sizing the swap partition is to allocate twice as much swap 41space as you have real memory. Having your swap + real memory total at 42least 20M is also a good idea. Systems that will be heavily used or that 43are low on real memory should have more swap space allocated. Systems that 44will be only lightly used or have a very large amount of real memory can 45get away with less. 46||||||| 1.2 47Apple's HD SC Setup is probably the easiest to use and the most 48commonly available. Instructions for patching HD SC Setup 49so that it will recognize non-Apple drives is available at: 50http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html 51 52First, you need to choose a drive on which to install NetBSD. 53Try to pick a drive with a low SCSI ID number, especially if you 54are likely to add or remove drives to your SCSI chain in the 55future. 56 57** NOTE: be sure you have a reliable backup of any data 58** which you may want to keep. Repartitioning your hard 59** drive is an excellent way to destroy important data. 60 61Second, decide how you want to set up your partitions. At 62minimum, you need a partition to hold the NetBSD installation (the 63root partition) and a partition to serve as swap. You may choose 64to use more than one partition to hold the installation. This 65allows you to separate the more vital portions of the filesystem 66(such as the kernel and the /etc directory) from the more volatile 67parts of the filesystem. Typical setups place the /usr directory 68on a separate partition from the root partition. Generally, the 69root partition can be fairly small while the /usr partition should 70be fairly large. If you plan to use this machine as a server, you 71may also want a separate /var partition. 72 73Once you have decided how to lay out your partitions, you need 74calculate how much space to allocate to each partition. A minimal 75install of NetBSD (i.e. netbsd13, base13, and etc13) should fit in 76a 30M partition. For a full installation, you should allocate at 77least 80M. A general rule of thumb for sizing the swap partition 78is to allocate twice as much swap space as you have real memory. 79Having your swap + real memory total at least 20M is also a good 80ideo. Systems that will be heavily used or that are low on real 81memory should have more swap space allocated. Systems that 82will be only lightly used or have a very large amount of real 83memory can get away with less. 84======= 85Apple's HD SC Setup is probably the easiest to use and the most 86commonly available. Instructions for patching HD SC Setup 87so that it will recognize non-Apple drives is available at: 88http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html 89 90First, you need to choose a drive on which to install NetBSD. 91Try to pick a drive with a low SCSI ID number, especially if you 92are likely to add or remove drives to your SCSI chain in the 93future. 94 95NOTE: BE SURE YOU HAVE A RELIABLE BACKUP OF ANY DATA WHICH YOU 96MAY WANT TO KEEP. REPARTITIONING YOUR HARD DRIVE IS AN EXCELLENT 97WAY TO DESTROY IMPORTANT DATA. 98 99Second, decide how you want to set up your partitions. At 100minimum, you need a partition to hold the NetBSD installation (the 101root partition) and a partition to serve as swap. You may choose 102to use more than one partition to hold the installation. This 103allows you to separate the more vital portions of the filesystem 104(such as the kernel and the /etc directory) from the more volatile 105parts of the filesystem. Typical setups place the /usr directory 106on a separate partition from the root partition. Generally, the 107root partition can be fairly small while the /usr partition should 108be fairly large. If you plan to use this machine as a server, you 109may also want a separate /var partition. 110 111Once you have decided how to lay out your partitions, you need 112calculate how much space to allocate to each partition. A minimal 113install of NetBSD (i.e. netbsd13, base13, and etc13) should fit in 114a 30M partition. For a full installation, you should allocate at 115least 80M. A general rule of thumb for sizing the swap partition 116is to allocate twice as much swap space as you have real memory. 117Having your swap + real memory total at least 20M is also a good 118ideo. Systems that will be heavily used or that are low on real 119memory should have more swap space allocated. Systems that 120will be only lightly used or have a very large amount of real 121memory can get away with less. 122>>>>>>> 1.3 123 124Next, use your favorite partitioning utility to make partitions of the 125necessary sizes. You can use any type of partition, but partitions of type 126"Apple_Free" might save you some confusion in the future. 127 128You are now set to install NetBSD on your hard drive. 129