[src/trunk]: src/distrib/notes/amiga Adapt minimum memory and disk requiremen...

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details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/1eaa85400f2e
branches:  trunk
changeset: 472280:1eaa85400f2e
user:      is <is%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Mon Apr 26 19:29:45 1999 +0000

description:
Adapt minimum memory and disk requirements to reality:
- due to a pmap bug, really low memory booting doesn't work
- NetBSD-1.4 needs much more disk than earlier releases.

diffstat:

 distrib/notes/amiga/hardware |  30 +++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diffs (58 lines):

diff -r 800bf3f1d31c -r 1eaa85400f2e distrib/notes/amiga/hardware
--- a/distrib/notes/amiga/hardware      Mon Apr 26 19:18:23 1999 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/amiga/hardware      Mon Apr 26 19:29:45 1999 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.31 1999/04/18 10:50:17 is Exp $      
+.\" $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.32 1999/04/26 19:29:45 is Exp $      
 .
 .Nx \*V
 runs on any Amiga that has a 68020 or better CPU with
@@ -8,18 +8,18 @@
 system utilities.
 68LC040, 68040V and 68LC060 systems don't work correctly at the moment.
 .Pp
-The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and about 75M of disk
-space.  To install the entire system requires much more disk space,
-and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.  (4M of
-RAM will actually allow you to compile, however it won't be speedy. X
-really isn't usable on a 4M system.)
+The minimal configuration requires 6M of RAM (not including CHIPMEM!)
+and about 75M of disk space.  To install the entire system requires
+much more disk space, and to run X or compile the system, more RAM
+is recommended.  (6M of RAM will actually allow you to compile,
+however it won't be speedy. X really isn't usable on a 6M system.)
 .Pp
 Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install:
 .
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 partition:     advise, with X, needed, with X
 root (/)       20M     20M     15M     15M
-user (/usr)    95M     125M    75M     105M
+user (/usr)    110M    135M    90M     115M
 swap           ----- 2M for every M ram -----
 local (/usr/local)     up to you
 .Ed
@@ -27,11 +27,19 @@
 .Pp
 As you may note the recommended size of /usr is 20M greater than
 needed. This is to leave room for a kernel source and compile tree as
-you will probably want to compile your own kernel. (GENERIC is large
-and bulky to accommodate all people).
+you will probably want to compile your own kernel. GENERIC is large
+and bulky to accommodate all people. For example, most peoples machines
+have an FPU, so you do not need the bulky FPU_EMULATE option.
 .Pp
-If you only have 4M of fast memory, you should make your swap partition
-larger, as your system will be doing much more swapping.
+Preconfigured or precompiled packages are installed below /usr/pkg per
+default. You should either make /usr larger (if you intend to install
+a lot of them), make /usr/pkg an additional partiton, use the -p option
+to pkg_add to install them in a different place or link /usr/pkg to
+some different place.
+.Pp
+If you only have less than 8M of fast memory, you should make your swap
+partition larger, as your system will be doing much more swapping. Especially:
+do NOT place it onto a old small (and normally slow) disk!
 .Pp
 Supported devices include:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent