The OpenBSD/amiga installation or upgrade now uses a "miniroot"
fileystem which is installed on the partition used by OpenBSD
for swapping. This removes the requirement of using a floppy
- disk for the filesystem used by the installation or upgrade
+ disk for the filesystem used by the installation/upgrade
process. It also allows more utilities to be present on the
filesystem than would be available when using an 880K floppy
disk.
- Once the hard disk has been prepared for OpenBSD, the appropriate
- miniroot filesystem (inst-21.fs for a new install or upgr-21.fs
- for an upgrade) is transferred to the swap partition configured
- during the hard disk prep (or the existing swap parition in
- the case of an upgrade). The xstreamtodev utility provided in
- the "amiga/utilities" directory can be used on AmigaDOS to
- transfer the filesystem for either a new installation or an
- upgrade. The filesystem can also be transferred on an existing
- OpenBSD system for an update by using dd. This should only be
- done after booting OpenBSD into single-user state. It may also
- be possible to shutdown to single-user, providing that the
- single-user state processes are not using the swap partition.
+ Once the hard disk has been prepared for OpenBSD, the miniroot
+ filesystem (miniroot21.fs) is transferred to the swap partition
+ configured during the hard disk prep (or the existing swap
+ partition in the case of an upgrade). The xstreamtodev utility
+ provided in the "amiga/utilities" directory can be used on
+ AmigaDOS to transfer the filesystem for either a new installation
+ or an upgrade. The filesystem can also be transferred on an
+ existing OpenBSD (or NetBSD) system for an update by using dd.
+ This should only be done after booting the former OS into single-
+ user state. It may also be possible to shutdown to single-user,
+ providing that the single-user state processes are not using the
+ swap partition.
On AmigaDOS, the command:
- xstreamtodev --input=inst-21.fs --rdb-name=<swap partition>
+ xstreamtodev --input=miniroot21.fs --rdb-name=<swap partition>
where <swap partition> is the name you gave to the OpenBSD
- partition to be used for swapping. Use upgr-21.fs if you
- are going to do an upgrade of an existing OpenBSD system. If
- xstreamtodev is unable to determine the SCSI driver device
- name or the unit number of the specified partition, you may
- also need to include the option "--device=<driver.name>" and/or
- "--unit=<SCSI unit number>".
-
- To transfer the miniroot using OpenBSD, you should be booted up
- in single user state on the current OpenBSD system, or use the
+ partition to be used for swapping. If xstreamtodev is unable to
+ determine the SCSI driver device name or the unit number of the
+ specified partition, you may also need to include the option
+ "--device=<driver.name>" and/or "--unit=<SCSI unit number>".
+
+ To transfer the miniroot using an older BSD, you should be booted
+ up in single user state on the current system, or use the
"shutdown now" command to shutdown to single-uyser state. Then
copy the miniroot using dd:
- dd if=upgr-21.fs of=/dev/rsd0b
- where /dev/rsd0b should be the device path of the swap partition
+ dd if=miniroot21.fs of=/dev/rsdXb
+ where /dev/rsdXb should be the device path of the swap partition
your system is configured to use. Once the file is copied,
- reboot back to AmigaDOS to boot the upgrade kernel. NOTE: the
- release kernel is a "generic" kernel, and requires that the
+ reboot back to AmigaDOS to boot the new OpenBSD kernel. NOTE:
+ the release kernel is a "generic" kernel, and requires that the
swap partition be on the same device as the root partition.
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