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% GNO Overview
%
% $Id: intro.tex,v 1.10 1999/01/26 07:30:14 gdr-ftp Exp $
% $Id: intro.tex,v 1.11 1999/01/27 06:35:42 gdr-ftp Exp $
%
\documentclass{report}
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\section{Planning Your System}
The install scripts assumes that your \em new\rm distribution will be installed
on to the two volumes \bf /gno \rm (ProDOS) and \bf /gno-hfs \rm (HFS
or AppleShare).
The install scripts assumes that your \em new\rm distribution will be
installed on to the two volumes \bf /gno \rm (ProDOS) and \bf /gno-hfs \rm
(HFS or AppleShare).
It also assumes these volumes already exist and are \em empty\rm.
You may use other volume names,
but you will have to edit certain files before you run your distribution.
You will need \it at least\rm the following amount of disk space.
It is recommended that you dedicate an entire 32Meg ProDOS partition to
GNO.
\begin{tabular}{ll}
boot disk (used only for installation) & 800k \\
binary distribution (shk files) & 4.6 MB \\
binary distribution (extracted) & 12.1 MB \\
complete GNO source & 15.0 MB \\
binary distribution (shk files) & 5.3 MB \\
binary distribution (extracted) & 12.0 MB \\
complete GNO source (optional) & 15.0 MB \\
\end{tabular}
Before you start, you should also ensure that your system meets the
minimum hardware requirements, as documented in \bf Overview\rm.
In order to install GNO, you will need some way to download the NuFX
archive files to your GS. You will also need GShrinkIt, which is available
archive files to your GS. You will also need GS-ShrinkIt, which is available
from
\hturl{ftp://ftp.gno.org/pub/apple2/gs.specific/archivers/gshk11.bsc}.
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\section{Downloading and Extracting the Binary Distribution}
If you have not yet read the section on \it Planning Your System\rm,
please do so now.
Your first step is of course to download the distribution.
The distribution is available from
\hturl{ftp://ftp.gno.org/pub/apple2/gs.specific/gno/base}.
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\end{itemize}
Next, using GShrinkIt or a similar program, extract the contents of the
Using the Finder or a similar program, ensure that you have an empty ProDOS
partition \bf /gno \rm, and an HFS or AppleShare partition online. The
former \em may \rm be named something else, but note the instructions
below for handling this situation. The latter is assumed to be called
\bf /gno-hfs \rm (modify the following instructions accordingly), and
need not be otherwise empty. The two subdirectories \bf HFSinclude \rm
and \bf man \rm will be created on \bf /gno-hfs \rm during the installation
process.
Next, using GS-ShrinkIt or a similar program, extract the contents of the
file gnoboot.shk onto an 800k floppy named \bf gno.boot\rm.
The name of the floppy is critical. While you may use a hard drive
partition for \bf gno.boot\rm, this is likely a waste of hard drive space
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Note that the boot disk currently uses the version 2.0.4 GNO kernel; this
is a temporary measure due to a bug with using newer kernels in single user
mode. When GNO gets installed to your hard drive, you will have a newer
mode. When GNO is installed on your hard drive, you will have a newer
kernel.
\item
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%% README.install-start
\item
Set your DOWNLOAD\_DIR environment variable to the directory
into which you placed the above NuFX (*.shk) files. For example,
if the files gnohfs.shk, gno.01.shk, gno.02.shk (and so forth)
were in /download, you would type:
into which you placed the base distribution NuFX archive files
(gnoboot.shk, gnohfs.shk, gno.01.shk, and so forth).
For example, if the NuFX files were in /download, you would type:
\begin{verbatim}
setenv DOWNLOAD_DIR /download
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that is not the name of your HFS (or Appleshare) partition
where you ran the
installboot2
script.
script. Note that you cannot currently use pathnames in the
namespace
file that contain spaces.
The
gno.boot