[src/trunk]: src/distrib/notes Delete maze of twisty little conditionals. 6 ...

[ross <ross%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/3ba09c751a18
branches:  trunk
changeset: 473194:3ba09c751a18
user:      ross <ross%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Mon May 24 16:47:25 1999 +0000

description:
Delete maze of twisty little conditionals.  6 down, 11 to go.

diffstat:

 distrib/notes/atari/contents |  534 +----------------------------------
 distrib/notes/hp300/contents |  610 +---------------------------------------
 distrib/notes/i386/contents  |  655 +------------------------------------------
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1790 deletions(-)

diffs (truncated from 2036 to 300 lines):

diff -r 64ef65e731ac -r 3ba09c751a18 distrib/notes/atari/contents
--- a/distrib/notes/atari/contents      Mon May 24 13:05:40 1999 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/atari/contents      Mon May 24 16:47:25 1999 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: contents,v 1.13 1999/05/24 07:03:18 ross Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: contents,v 1.14 1999/05/24 16:47:25 ross Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -54,334 +54,18 @@
 .              It Pa sets/
 \*m binary distribution sets;
 see below.
-.if \n[amiga] \{\
-.              Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage/
-.              It Pa Split/
-\&.tgz files split for loading onto floppies.
-.              El
-.\}
-.if \n[amiga] \{\
-.              It Pa kernel/
-.No The Tn GENERIC No kernel.
-.\}
-.if \n[pmax] \{\
-.              It Pa kernel/
-\*m installation kernels.
-.\}
-.if \n[sparc] \{\
-.              It Pa kernel/
-.No Base Tn GENERIC No kernels.
-.\}
 .              It Pa security/
 \*m security distribution; see below.
 .      El
 .      It Pa installation/
 .\" BTW, .Bl ... .El is not allowed unless there is at least one .It.
 .
-.\"============================================ ALPHA INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[alpha] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage/
-.              It Pa floppy/
-\*m boot and installation floppies; see below.
-.              It Pa diskimage/
-.              It Pa tapeimage/
-.No \&an image file Pa cdhdtape
-is included for the case where the installer is written to
-a CD, hard drive, or tape.
-This image file is the same for the CD, HD, and tape cases,
-.No but a separate Pa tapeimage/
-directory exists to hold a copy of the
-.Tn README No file and to meet the
-.Nx
-.Xr release 7
-standard.
-.              It Pa instkernel/
-.No contains a Pa netbsd.gz
-installation kernel; this is the same installer kernel as in all the
-other install
-images, but without the various boot program and filesystem wrappers.
-It can be netbooted or diskbooted from a previous installation. Note: there is
-no need to ungzip this image.
-
-.              It Pa misc/
-contains
-.Pa GENERIC.fs ,
-.No a Tn GENERIC
-kernel in a bootable filesystem image. This is used in some unusual
-installations as described in the next section.
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.\"============================================ AMIGA INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[amiga] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage/
-.              It Pa miniroot/
-\*[MACHINE] miniroot file system image; see below.
-.              It Pa misc/
-Miscellaneous \*[MACHINE] installation utilities; see
-installation section, below.
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.\"============================================ ARM32 INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[arm32] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage/
-.              It Pa kernels/
-\*m installation and other kernels; see below.
-.              It Ar platform/
-Miscellaneous arm32 installation utilities and
-supplementary documentation for
-.Ar platform ; No see installation section, below.
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.\"============================================ HP300 INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[hp300] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage/
-.      It Pa miniroot/
-hp300 miniroot images; see below.
-.      It Pa misc/
-Miscellaneous hp300 installation helper utilities;
-see installation section below.
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.\"============================================ I386 INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[i386] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage/
-.              It Pa floppy/
-\*m boot and installation floppies; see below.
-.              It Pa misc/
-Miscellaneous \*[MACHINE] installation utilities; see
-installation section, below.
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.
-.
-.\"============================================ MACPPC INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[macppc] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage/
-.              It Pa floppy/
-\*m boot and installation floppies; see below.
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.\"============================================ MVME68K INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[mvme68k] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage/
-.              It Pa miniroot/
-The miniroot filesystem image.
-.              It Pa netboot/
-Two programs needed to boot mvme68k kernels over the network.
-.              It Pa tapeimage/
-Tape boot programs, and a RAMDISK kernel.
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.\"============================================ PC532 INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[pc532] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width floppy
-.              It Pa floppy/
-.              Bl -tag -compact -width floppy-144.fs.gz
-.                      It Pa floppy-144.fs.gz
-Installation file system obtained via SCSI floppy or download to RAM.
-.              El
-.              It Pa misc/
-.              Bl -tag -compact -width floppy-144.fs.gz
-.                      It Pa download.c.gz
-Source for the program to download inst-11.fs into memory via the
-pc532 ROM monitor.
-.              El
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.\"============================================ PMAX INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[pmax] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage
-.              It Pa diskimage/
-\*m miniroot file system image; see below.
-.              It Pa misc/
-New bootblocks necessary for booting non
-.Ic a.out
-kernels.
-.              It Pa netboot/
-Server tar file for diskless machines.
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.\"============================================ SPARC INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[sparc] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width miniroot/
-.              It Pa miniroot/
-Sparc miniroot boot-image.
-.              It Pa netboot/
-Server boot-file image for diskless machines.
-.              It Pa misc/
-Statically-linked versions of gzip (GNU gzip) and gtar (GNU tar).
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.\"============================================ SUN3 INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[sun3] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width miniroot/
-.              It Pa miniroot/
-Sun3 miniroot boot-image.
-.              It Pa netboot/
-Server boot-file image for diskless machines.
-.              It Pa tapeboot/
-Scripts and boot block for making a boot tape.
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.\"============================================ VAX INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[vax] \{\
-.\}
-.
-.\"============================================ X68K INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[x68k] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width floppy/
-.              It Pa floppy/
-\*m boot and installation floppies; see below.
-.              It Pa misc/
-Miscellaneous \*[MACHINE] installation utilities which run
-on Human68k; see installation section, below.
-.      El
-.\}
-.
-.
-.
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 .El
 .
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-.if r_alpha \{\
-.Ss2 Bootable installation/upgrade floppies:
-.Pp
-There are three bootable images in the
-.Nx
-\*m distribution.
-One is for a dual-floppy boot and is split into two separate files.
-The other is a single-file image containing the same install kernel,
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-image is a
-.Tn GENERIC
-kernel intended for production use in unusual cases.
-This can be useful at some sites when:
-.Bl -bullet
-.It
-You want to run diskless but SRM bugs prevent the firmware from
-netbooting. You can work around this problem by always booting the generic
-kernel from the floppy.
-.It
-SRM doesn't recognize your (hard) disk controller but
-.Nx
-does. This
-happens more frequently than you might think. SRM will usually only boot
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-.Xr ncr 4
-or
-.Xr isp 4
-SCSI devices, and on most platforms will not
-boot from an IDE drive.
-.Nx
-will happily operate
-with almost any SCSI root or an IDE root; the solution here is to netboot
-a kernel or always boot from floppy.
-.El
-.\}
 .
-.if r_amiga \{\
-.Ss2 Miniroot file system
-The Amiga now uses a single miniroot filesystem for both an initial
-installation and for an upgrade. A gzipped version is available, for easier
-downloading. (The gzipped version has the
-.Sy \&.gz
-extension added to
-their names.)
-.(tag Pa miniroot.fs
-This file contains a BSD root file system setup to help you
-install the rest of
-.Nx
-or to upgrade a previous version of
-.Nx .
-This includes formatting and mounting your root and
-/usr partitions and getting ready to extract (and possibly first
-fetching) the distribution sets. There is enough on this file
-system to allow you to make a SLIP or PPP connection, configure
-an Ethernet, mount an NFS file system or ftp. You can also load
-distribution sets from a SCSI tape or from one of your existing
-AmigaDOS partitions.
-.tag)
-.\}
-.
-.if r_arm32 \{\
-There are a collection of arm32 kernels in the "arm32/kernels"
-subdirectory of the
-.Nx \*V
-distribution. Some of these kernels
-contain a root file system image and should only be used for the
-initial installation. Some of the kernels only support a particular
-subset of the platforms that arm32 supports (See
-"arm32/kernels/README" for more details.)
-.\}
-.
-.if r_mvme68k \{\