Re: Machine Check with 26 May LIF image

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:19:44 +0200 (CEST)
Havard Eidnes <[email protected]> wrote:

> I thought about retrying to do the installation by hand, but then I
> realized I don't know what the machine dependent requirements are for
> partitioning of the hard drive, where to put the boot loader, if it
> has to be a particular partition type etc. etc.
Partitioning isn't different than for other architectures. Slice a is
the boot / root FS, b swap, c entire disk, the other slices as you like.
Just disklabel(8) the disk as you want. Run "disklabel -B sd0" to
install the boot blocks, make sure to "cp /usr/mdec/boot /boot.hp700" on
the disk. 
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