From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 14 11: 0:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ruhr.de (in-ruhr4.ruhr.de [212.23.134.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9B3937B417 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:59:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11066 invoked by uid 10); 14 Mar 2002 18:59:56 -0000 Received: (from ue@localhost) by nathan.ruhr.de (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g2EIumD17297; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:56:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ue) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:56:48 +0100 From: Udo Erdelhoff To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/sparc64 install document active in -CURRENT Message-ID: <20020314185648.GO90154@nathan.ruhr.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Bruce A. Mah" , freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <200203140543.g2E5hek56478@bmah.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203140543.g2E5hek56478@bmah.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:43:40PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Comments (and commits) welcome. as promised, I have included the second version of my patch: - add some forgotten - and friends should not be inside a entity - Use foo instead of screen in the disk label section - Use for this section - disklabel -e auto was replaced by disklabel -e (looks like an artifact from a copy&paste action) - use instead of <>, <>, <> in some places - tags should snuggle up to their content - reduce the number of sentences torn apart by screen presentations /s/Udo -- Tell init to lock and load - we're going zombie slaying --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="install.diff" Index: install.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/sparc64/install.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -r1.7 install.sgml --- install.sgml 14 Mar 2002 01:40:47 -0000 1.7 +++ install.sgml 14 Mar 2002 18:49:31 -0000 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ This section describes the files you will need for a &os;/&arch; installation. The links in this document point to the main &os; FTP server. Please use a mirror site instead if - possible. + possible. The URLs in this section are provisional and subject to @@ -139,12 +139,10 @@ on the keyboard, or send a BREAK over the serial console (using for example ~# in &man.tip.1; or &man.cu.1;) to - get to the PROM prompt. It looks like + get to the PROM prompt. It looks like this: - ok - or - ok {0} - (on SMP systems). + ok (systems with one CPU) +ok {0} (SMP systems) @@ -242,7 +240,7 @@ :rp="tftp-server-ip-address:nfs-root-directory":\ :sm=ip-netmask -<name of the entry>:\ +name of the entry:\ ha=sparc64-ethernet-address:ip=sparc64-ip-address:tc=.default The Ethernet address must be the same as the one in the @@ -287,7 +285,7 @@ option host-name is resolvable, i.e. has a DNS entry or is associated with an address in /etc/hosts, the - fixed-address specification can be omitted. + fixed-address specification can be omitted. @@ -396,18 +394,22 @@ To create a disk label, the following procedure is the easiest: - First, use: -&prompt.root; disklabel -w -r <device> auto - This will create a basic disk label. The third argument you need + + + Run +disklabel -w -r device auto + to create a basic disk label. The third argument you need specify here is just the name of the device, not the complete path to the device node (e.g. ad0 for the first ATA disk). + + - Now, use: -&prompt.root; disklabel -e <device> auto - This will open an editor in which you can edit the disk - label. The information presented to you should look like: + Use +disklabel -e device + to open an editor in which you can edit the disk + label. The information presented to you should look like: # /dev/ad6c: type: unknown @@ -430,10 +432,9 @@ 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] - c: 80418240 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 79779) - + c: 80418240 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 79779) - You can now add new partitions in the same format as the already + You can now add new partitions in the same format as the already present line. Using * in the offset field makes the procedure easier; please refer to the &man.disklabel.8; manual page for more information. @@ -451,7 +452,9 @@ this disk must have their respective partition entries in the old and new label match exactly, or they will be lost. + + Use disklabel -B if you want to make the disk bootable for &os;/&arch;. @@ -467,6 +470,8 @@ + + @@ -491,19 +496,19 @@ To create file systems and to install the base system, boot from CDROM or via NFS and create a disk label as described in - . + . When booting the first time and you have not entered your root partition into /etc/fstab yet, you may need to specify your root partition on the mountroot prompt when booting (use a format like - ufs:<disk><partition>, i.e. leave the + ufs:diskpartition, i.e. leave the slice specification out). If the kernel does automatically attempt to boot from another file system, press a key other than Enter on the loader - prompt: + prompt: Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. - Then, boot the kernel using boot -a -s, which + Then, boot the kernel using boot -a -s, which will cause the kernel to ask you for the root partition and then boot into single-user mode. Once the root file system has been entered into /etc/fstab, it should be --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message