[src/trunk]: src/distrib/notes/pmax You leave a maze of twistly little condit...

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

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/b1d5c0cff69d
branches:  trunk
changeset: 473234:b1d5c0cff69d
user:      simonb <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Wed May 26 01:16:40 1999 +0000

description:
You leave a maze of twistly little conditionals...

diffstat:

 distrib/notes/pmax/contents |  674 +-------------------------------------------
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 671 deletions(-)

diffs (truncated from 770 to 300 lines):

diff -r a87c7bc1375a -r b1d5c0cff69d distrib/notes/pmax/contents
--- a/distrib/notes/pmax/contents       Wed May 26 01:09:02 1999 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/pmax/contents       Wed May 26 01:16:40 1999 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: contents,v 1.10 1999/05/24 07:03:21 ross Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: contents,v 1.11 1999/05/26 01:16:40 simonb Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -54,159 +54,13 @@
 .              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/
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-supplementary documentation for
-.Ar platform ; No see installation section, below.
-.      El
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-.\"============================================ HP300 INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[hp300] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage/
-.      It Pa miniroot/
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-.      It Pa misc/
-Miscellaneous hp300 installation helper utilities;
-see installation section below.
-.      El
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-.\"============================================ 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
-.\}
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-.\"============================================ MVME68K INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[mvme68k] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width diskimage/
-.              It Pa miniroot/
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-.              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
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-.              El
-.              It Pa misc/
-.              Bl -tag -compact -width floppy-144.fs.gz
-.                      It Pa download.c.gz
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-.              El
-.      El
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-.\"============================================ PMAX INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[pmax] \{\
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@@ -217,173 +71,9 @@
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-.\}
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-.
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-.              It Pa netboot/
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-.\"============================================ SUN3 INSTALLATION SUBTREE
-.
-.if \n[sun3] \{\
-.      Bl -tag -compact -width miniroot/
-.              It Pa miniroot/
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-.      El
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-.\"============================================ VAX INSTALLATION SUBTREE
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-.if r_mvme68k \{\
-.Pp
-The NetBSD/mvme68k install distribution contains files that can be
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