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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!ariel!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!lurch From: lurch@ee.latrobe.edu.au (Geoffrey Liersch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Easy Install for 386bsd with more swap space! Message-ID: <1992Aug28.040755.2247@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> Date: 28 Aug 92 04:07:55 GMT Sender: news@lugb.latrobe.edu.au (USENET News System) Organization: Department of Electronic Engineering, La Trobe University Lines: 69 Here is an easier way to install 386bsd with a larger swap space and/or a real partitioning scheme. NOTE: Steps marked with a (*) can be skipped if a separate usr partition is not required! 1. Boot the fixit.fs floppy. 2. Make the floppy writable: mount -u /dev/fd0a / 3. Make some space on the floppy: rm [A-Z]* 4. Make a disktab entry with a seperate usr partition if needed: vi /etc/disktab 5. Disklabel the hard disk: disklabel -w -r wd0 "drivename" 6. Prepare the root partition: newfs /dev/rwd0a 7.(*) Prepare the usr partition if necessary: newfs /dev/rwd0h mount /dev/wd0a /mnt mkdir /mnt/usr mkdir /mnt/sbin mkdir /mnt/dev cd /usr/distbin ls *mount | cpio -pdalmu /mnt/sbin cd /dev ls * | cpio -pdalmu /mnt/dev 8. Shutdown and remove the fixit.fs floppy: shutdown 9. Boot the dist.fs floppy. 10. Mount the root partition: mount /dev/wd0a /mnt 11.(*) Mount the usr partition if necessary: mount /mnt/dev/wd0h /mnt/usr 12. Install the binaries: zcat /etc/baselist.Z | cpio -pdalmu /mnt cd /mnt zcat /etc/baseutils.cpio.Z | cpio -idalmu 13. Shutdown and remove the dist.fs floppy: shutdown 14. Boot off the hard disk. 15. Make the root partition writable: mount -u /dev/wd0a / 16.(*) Mount the usr partition if necessary: mount /dev/wd0h /usr 17. Read the install notes in the root directory: zmore INSTALL.NOTES 18. (i) If you have not got a seperate usr partition the install the binary and other distributions as per the INSTALL.NOTES. (ii) If you have got a seperate usr partition then install the binary distribution as follows: mkdir /usr/tmp cd /usr/tmp Get the binary distribution to here as per the INSTALL.NOTES. cd / cat /usr/tmp/bin01* | uncompress | cpio -idalmu sh /tmp/install.bin01 19. Create the file /etc/fstab: vi /etc/fstab and add the following line(s): /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0h /usr ufs rw 1 2 20. Get to work! I hope that this is helpful to someone. Lurch lurch@ee.latrobe.edu.au