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1 1.1.2.2 perry Installation is supported from several media types, including: 2 1.1.2.2 perry 3 1.1.2.2 perry FTP 4 1.1.2.2 perry Remote NFS partition 5 1.1.2.2 perry CD-ROM 6 1.1.2.2 perry 7 1.1.2.2 perry No matter which installation medium you choose, you'll need to have 8 1.1.2.2 perry either a 1.44 MB floppy disk (if your Alpha has a floppy drive to 9 1.1.2.2 perry boot from) or you'll have to set up an NFS server to boot from as 10 1.1.2.2 perry described later in this document. 11 1.1.2.2 perry 12 1.1.2.2 perry If you are using a UN*X-like system to write the floppy images to 13 1.1.2.2 perry disks, you should use the "dd" command to copy the file system image 14 1.1.2.2 perry (.fs file) directly to the raw floppy disk. It is suggested that you 15 1.1.2.2 perry read the dd(1) manual page or ask your system administrator to 16 1.1.2.2 perry determine the correct set of arguments to use; it will be slightly 17 1.1.2.2 perry different from system to system, and a comprehensive list of the 18 1.1.2.2 perry possibilities is beyond the scope of this document. 19 1.1.2.2 perry 20 1.1.2.2 perry If you are using DOS to write the floppy image to disk, you should 21 1.1.2.2 perry use the "rawrite" utility, provided in the "i386/utilities" directory 22 1.1.2.2 perry of the NetBSD distribution. It will write the file system image (.fs 23 1.1.2.2 perry file) to disks. 24 1.1.2.2 perry 25 1.1.2.2 perry Note that, when installing or upgrading, the floppy can be 26 1.1.2.2 perry write-protected if you wish. These systems mount ramdisks as their 27 1.1.2.2 perry root file systems once booted, and will not need to write to the 28 1.1.2.2 perry floppy itself at any time -- indeed, once booted, the floppy may be 29 1.1.2.2 perry removed from the disk drive. 30 1.1.2.2 perry 31 1.1.2.2 perry Obviously, the steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 32 1.1.2.2 perry for installation depend on which installation medium you choose. 33 1.1.2.2 perry The steps for the various media are outlined below. 34 1.1.2.2 perry 35 1.1.2.2 perry To install NetBSD using NFS, you must do the following: 36 1.1.2.2 perry 37 1.1.2.2 perry Place the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install into a 38 1.1.2.2 perry directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable 39 1.1.2.2 perry by the machine on which you are installing or upgrading NetBSD. 40 1.1.2.2 perry This will probably require modifying the /etc/exports file on 41 1.1.2.2 perry of the NFS server and resetting its mount daemon (mountd). 42 1.1.2.2 perry (Both of these actions will probably require superuser 43 1.1.2.2 perry privileges on the server.) 44 1.1.2.2 perry 45 1.1.2.2 perry You need to know the the numeric IP address of the NFS server, 46 1.1.2.2 perry and, if the server is not on a network directly connected to 47 1.1.2.2 perry the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, 48 1.1.2.2 perry you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest 49 1.1.2.2 perry to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric 50 1.1.2.2 perry IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. The install 51 1.1.2.2 perry program will ask you to provide this information to be able 52 1.1.2.2 perry to access the sets. 53 1.1.2.2 perry 54 1.1.2.2 perry Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the 55 1.1.2.2 perry information mentioned above, you can start the actual 56 1.1.2.2 perry installation process. 57 1.1.2.2 perry 58 1.1.2.2 perry To install NetBSD by using FTP to get the installation 59 1.1.2.2 perry sets, you must do the following: 60 1.1.2.2 perry 61 1.1.2.2 perry The preparations for this installation method are easy; 62 1.1.2.2 perry all you make sure that there's some FTP site from which 63 1.1.2.2 perry you can retrieve the NetBSD distribution when you're about 64 1.1.2.2 perry to install. You need to know the numeric IP address of that 65 1.1.2.2 perry site, and, if it's not on a network directly connected to 66 1.1.2.2 perry the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, 67 1.1.2.2 perry you need to know the numeric IP address of the router 68 1.1.2.2 perry closest to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know 69 1.1.2.2 perry the numeric IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. The 70 1.1.2.2 perry install program will ask you to provide this information 71 1.1.2.2 perry to be able to access the sets via ftp. 72 1.1.2.2 perry 73 1.1.2.2 perry Once you have this information, you can proceed to the actual 74 1.1.2.2 perry installation. 75 1.1.2.2 perry 76 1.1.2.2 perry If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing 77 1.1.2.2 perry NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing 78 1.1.2.2 perry file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the 79 1.1.2.2 perry following: 80 1.1.2.2 perry 81 1.1.2.2 perry Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in 82 1.1.2.2 perry your current file system tree. Please note that the /dev on 83 1.1.2.2 perry the floppy used for upgrades only knows about wd0, wd1, sd0, 84 1.1.2.2 perry sd1 and sd2. If you have more than two IDE drives or more than 85 1.1.2.2 perry three SCSI drives, you should take care not to place the sets 86 1.1.2.2 perry on the high numbered drives. 87 1.1.2.2 perry 88 1.1.2.2 perry At a bare minimum, you must upgrade the "base" and "kern" 89 1.1.2.2 perry binary distribution, and so must put the "base" and 90 1.1.2.2 perry "kern" sets somewhere in your file system. If you wish, 91 1.1.2.2 perry you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade 92 1.1.2.2 perry the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system 93 1.1.2.2 perry configuration files that you should review and update by hand. 94 1.1.2.2 perry 95 1.1.2.2 perry Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in 96 1.1.2.2 perry the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. 97
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