xref: /netbsd/distrib/sun3/ramdisk/welcome (revision 6550d01e)
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2	Welcome to the NetBSD/sun3 RAMDISK root!
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4This environment is designed to do only three things:
51:  Partition your disk (use the command:  edlabel /dev/rsd0c)
62:  Copy a miniroot image into the swap partition  (/dev/rsd0b)
73:  Reboot (using the swap partition, i.e. /dev/sd?b).
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9Note that the sun3 firmware cannot boot from a partition located
10more than 1 GB from the beginning of the disk, so the swap partition
11should be completely below the 1 GB boundary.
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13Copying the miniroot can be done several ways, allowing
14the source of the miniroot image to be on any of these:
15    boot tape,  NFS server, TFTP server, rsh server
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17The easiest is loading from tape, which is done as follows:
18	mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind
19	mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 2
20	dd bs=32k if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/rsd0b
21(For help with other methods, please see the install notes.)
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23To reboot using the swap partition, first use "halt",
24then at the PROM monitor prompt use a command like:
25	b sd(,,1) -s
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27To view this message again, type:  cat /.welcome
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