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2.7 Finishing Installation

Once this is done, all that's left is to set your timezone and install the boot blocks. Setting your timezone is straightforward. Just pick the area you live in and enter the name. That's it!. After this is done, just type 'reboot' at the shell prompt and your machine will be booted with MicroBSD!


	Extract more sets? [n]

	Copying... fstab hostname.fxp0 hosts myname mygate resolv.conf ...done.
	
	Select a time zone for your location. Timezones are represented on the system
	by a directory structure rooted in "/usr/share/timezone". Most timezones can
	be selected by entering a token like "CET" or "GMT+2". Other zones are
	grouped by continent or country, with detailed zone information separated by
	a slash ("/"), e.g. "US/Pacific" or "Europe/Sofia".
	
	What timezone are you in? ('?' for list) [US/Pacific] Europe
	Sele of 'Europe' ('?' for list): Sofia
	You have selected timezone 'Europe/Sofia'.
	Making all device nodes (by running /dev/MAKEDEV all) ...... done.
	Installing boot block...
	boot: /mnt/boot
	proto: /usr/mdec/biosboot
	device: /dev/rwd0c
	/usr/mdec/biosboot: entry point 0
	proto bootblock size 512
	room for 12 filesystem blocks at 0x16f
	Will load 7 blocks of size 8192 each.
	Using disk geometry of 63 sectors and 255 heads.
	 0: 56 @(0 152 8) (9583-9638)
	 1: 40 @(0 153 1) (9639-9678)
	 2: 16 @(0 9 27) (593-608)
	/mnt/boot: 3 entries total
	using MBR partition 3: type 166 (0xa6) offset 63 (0x3f)
	
	Enabling machdep.allowaperture. Read xf86(4) for more information.
	
	
	Cleaning up...
	/dev/wd0e: unmount from /mnt/var
	/dev/wd0g: unmount from /mnt/usr
	/dev/wd0d: unmount from /mnt/tmp
	/dev/wd0h: unmount from /mnt/home
	/dev/wd0a: unmount from /mnt
	Done.
	
	CONGRATULATIONS!  You have successfully installed MicroBSD!  To boot the
	installed system, enter halt at the command prompt. Once the system has
	halted, reset the machine and boot from the disk.
	
	# halt
	syncing disks... done
	
	The operating system has halted.
	Please press any key to reboot.
	
	

Before you reboot

At this point, your system is installed and ready to be rebooted and configured for service. Before doing this, however, it would be wise to check out the Errata page to see if there are any bugs that would immediately impact you.


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