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1.1 root 1: How to install BSD on your Amiga:
2: --------------------------------
3:
4: *Please* (re)read the README.amiga file, and make sure your system is
5: supported by the current kernel.
6:
7: Since BSD doesn't yet have a floppy driver, and you'll need a root fs
8: to start using commands (chicken and egg problem..) to make your own
9: fs, installation of the root fs is a bit hacky...
10:
11: vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
12: > We copy a binary image (8M) of the root fs directly to the place on <
13: > your harddisk. This is an extremely dangerous thing to do, since if <
14: > you get the offsets wrong, you'll destroy data on other partitions of <
15: > the drive! <
16: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
17:
18: If you don't feel like risking the life of innocent data on your disk,
19: better stop installing now, and wait until installation gets safer in
20: the future!!!
21:
22:
23: Ok.. if you're reading on, start up hdtoolbox, and create some partitions
24: for use by BSD. You'll have to at least create two partitions:
25:
26: o a root partition:
27: Must have FileSystem: Custom File System
28: Identifier: 0x42534452 (`BSDR')
29: Reserved begin: 0
30: end: 0
31: Use custom boot code: NO (ie. no checkmark)
32: FS block size: 512
33: You don't have to check Automount, the partition could only
34: confuse AmigaDOS.
35:
36: o a swap partition:
37: Must have FileSystem: Custom File System
38: Identifier: 0x42534453 (`BSDS')
39: Reserved begin: 0
40: end: 0
41: Use custom boot code: NO (ie. no checkmark)
42: FS block size: 512
43: You don't have to check Automount, the partition could only
44: confuse AmigaDOS.
45:
46:
47: You might also add a /usr partition, for example on BSDD:
48: Must have FileSystem: Custom File System
49: Identifier: 0x42534444 (`BSDD')
50: Reserved begin: 0
51: end: 0
52: Use custom boot code: NO (ie. no checkmark)
53: FS block size: 512
54: You don't have to check Automount, the partition might only
55: confuse AmigaDOS.
56:
57:
58: Other settings (like MaxTransfer and Mask) are ignored.
59:
60: Now, you'll have to find out about the exact block start address and length
61: in blocks of the BSDR fs (BSD will find out about the data of the other
62: partitions once it's started up). Go into "Change Drive Type" menu, and
63: write down the "Blocks per Cylinder" value it shows you for this drive. Then
64: go into the "Partition Drive" menu, select your BSDR partition, enable
65: "Advanced Options", and write down the "Start Cyl" and "End Cyl" values.
66:
67: Doing "Blocks per Cylinder" * "Start Cyl" gives you the block start number
68: of the BSDR partition, doing "Blocks per Cylinder" * ("End Cyl" - "Start Cyl")
69: results in the length of the partition in blocks. You'll need these values
70: to install the root fs onto the drive, so please write them down, and PLEASE
71: make sure you calculated them right, since if not, you'll scribble anywhere
72: on the drive, and that just might be.. (insert worst imaginations..).
73:
74: **************************************************************************
75: The rootfs has a length of ~8M, 16448 blocks. Your root fs must have at
76: least (!) the same amount of blocks. You don't have to make it exactly
77: 16448 blocks though, a task that could even be impossible if the number of
78: blocks per cylinder on your drive is not a divisor of 16448.
79: **************************************************************************
80:
81: Now you're almost ready to do the installation. Unzip the distributed rootfs.gz
82: file (you'll need 8M of free space on your amigados partition for this!), and
83: then do:
84:
85: filetodev {START_NUMBER} 16448 rootfs scsi.device {UNIT} 1000
86:
87: with:
88: {START_NUMBER}: above calculated block start number
89: {UNIT}: the scsi unit you're installing on, 0-6
90:
91:
92: The filetodev program is included in the bffs11.lzh archive, and was written
93: by Chris Hooper ([email protected]).
94:
95:
96:
97: How to start BSD
98: ----------------
99:
100: You start BSD with a loader program from AmigaDOS. This loader is called
101: `loadbsd', and it takes as parameter the kernel file, normally vmunix.
102:
103: So,
104:
105: loadbsd vmunix
106:
107: will (try to...) boot BSD. The kernel as distributed prefers to boot from
108: SCSI unit 6. It will probably boot from other units as well (can't test
109: this at the moment, since I don't want to repartition my other drives). If
110: you run into problems (ie. BSD says it can't mount the root filesystem),
111: you'll have to recompile the kernel. Please see the RECOMPILE file for
112: how to do this.
113:
114:
115: What about /usr ?
116: -----------------
117: For the first distribution of the kernel, I decided not to distribute
118: binaries for the /usr filesystem. Simply, because /usr is huge compared
119: to root, and a.out headers are likely to change in the future, rendering
120: a distributed /usr filesystem almost useless.
121:
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