upgrade revision 1.2.2.3
1 1.2 chopps The upgrade to NetBSD 1.1 is a binary upgrade; it would be prohibitive 2 1.2 chopps to make users upgrade by compiling and installing the 1.1 sources, and 3 1.2 chopps it would be very difficult to even compile a set of instructions that 4 1.2 chopps allowed them to do so. Because of the various changes to the system, 5 1.2 chopps the largest being the 64-bit file size support and shared libraries, 6 1.2 chopps it is impractical to upgrade by recompiling from the sources and 7 1.2 chopps installing. 8 1.2 chopps 9 1.2.2.1 chopps To do the upgrade, you must have the NetBSD kernel on AmigaDOS and 10 1.2.2.1 chopps you must transfer the upgrade filesystem upgr-11.fs onto the swap 11 1.2.2.1 chopps partition of the NetBSD hard disk. You must also have at least the 12 1.2.2.1 chopps "base11" binary distribution set available, so that you can upgrade 13 1.2.2.1 chopps with it, using one of the upgrade methods described above. Finally, 14 1.2.2.1 chopps you must have sufficient disk space available to install the new 15 1.2.2.1 chopps binaries. Since the old binaries are being overwritten in place, 16 1.2.2.1 chopps you only need space for the new binaries, which weren't previously 17 1.2.2.1 chopps on the system. If you have a few megabytes free on each of your 18 1.2.2.1 chopps root and /usr partitions, you should have enough space. 19 1.2 chopps 20 1.2 chopps Since upgrading involves replacing the kernel, and most of the system 21 1.2 chopps binaries, it has the potential to cause data loss. You are strongly 22 1.2 chopps advised to BACK UP ANY IMPORTANT DATA ON YOUR DISK, whether on the 23 1.2 chopps NetBSD partition or on another operating system's partition, before 24 1.2 chopps beginning the upgrade process. 25 1.2 chopps 26 1.2 chopps To upgrade your system, follow the following instructions: 27 1.2 chopps 28 1.2.2.1 chopps Transfer the upgrade miniroot filesystem onto the hard disk 29 1.2.2.1 chopps partition used by NetBSD for swapping, as described in the 30 1.2.2.1 chopps "Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" section above. 31 1.2.2.1 chopps 32 1.2.2.1 chopps Now boot up NetBSD using the 1.1 kernel using the loadbsd 33 1.2.2.1 chopps command: 34 1.2.2.1 chopps 35 1.2.2.1 chopps loadbsd -b netbsd 36 1.2.2.1 chopps 37 1.2.2.1 chopps You should see the screen clear and some information about 38 1.2.2.1 chopps your system as the kernel configures the hardware. Note which 39 1.2.2.1 chopps hard disk device is configured that contains your root and 40 1.2.2.1 chopps swap partition. When prompted for the root device, type 41 1.2.2.1 chopps 'sd0*' (replacing 0 with the disk number that NetBSD used for 42 1.2.2.1 chopps your root/swap device). The '*' character indicates that the 43 1.2.2.1 chopps root filesystem is contained on the swap partition. 44 1.2.2.1 chopps When you reach the prompt asking you for a shell name, just 45 1.2.2.1 chopps hit return. 46 1.2 chopps 47 1.2 chopps You will be presented with some information about the upgrade 48 1.2 chopps process and a warning message, and will be asked if you wish 49 1.2 chopps to proceed with the upgrade process. If you answer 50 1.2 chopps negatively, the upgrade process will stop, and your disk will 51 1.2 chopps not be modified. If you answer affirmatively, the upgrade 52 1.2 chopps process will begin, and your disk will be modified. You may 53 1.2 chopps hit Control-C to stop the upgrade process at any time. 54 1.2 chopps However, if you hit it at an inopportune moment, your system 55 1.2 chopps may be left in an inconsistent (and possibly unusable) state. 56 1.2 chopps 57 1.2 chopps You will be asked if you wish to upgrade your file systems to 58 1.2 chopps the new file system format. If you do, reply affirmatively. 59 1.2 chopps If you don't have your file systems upgraded now, you should 60 1.2 chopps probably do it manually after the install process is complete, 61 1.2 chopps by using "fsck -c 2". Read the fsck(8) manual page for more 62 1.2 chopps details. 63 1.2 chopps 64 1.2 chopps The upgrade program will then check your root file system, 65 1.2 chopps and, if you approved, will upgrade it to the new file system 66 1.2 chopps format. It will then mount your root file system on /mnt. 67 1.2 chopps 68 1.2 chopps If your file systems are being upgraded, the upgrade script 69 1.2 chopps will copy the new fsck(8) program to your hard disk and 70 1.2 chopps upgrade your remaining file systems. 71 1.2 chopps 72 1.2 chopps The upgrade program will then mount all of your file systems 73 1.2 chopps under /mnt. (In other words, your root partition will be 74 1.2 chopps mounted on /mnt, your /usr partition on /mnt/usr, etc.) 75 1.2 chopps 76 1.2 chopps If you don't already have the NetBSD distribution sets on your 77 1.2 chopps disk, look in the installation section for information on how 78 1.2 chopps to transfer them to your disk. 79 1.2 chopps 80 1.2 chopps Once the distribution sets are transferred to your disk, 81 1.2 chopps continue here. (Obviously, if the NetBSD distribution sets 82 1.2 chopps are already on your disk, because you've transferred them 83 1.2 chopps before starting the upgrade process, you don't need to 84 1.2 chopps transfer them again now!) 85 1.2 chopps 86 1.2 chopps After the software has been transferred to the machine (or 87 1.2 chopps mounted, in the case of upgrading via NFS), change into the 88 1.2 chopps directory containing the "base11" distribution set. Once you 89 1.2 chopps are there, run the "Set_tmp_dir" command, and hit return at 90 1.2 chopps the prompt to select the default answer for the temporary 91 1.2 chopps directory's path name. (It should be the path name of the 92 1.2 chopps directory that you're in.) 93 1.2 chopps 94 1.2 chopps Run the command "Extract base11" to upgrade the base 95 1.2 chopps distribution. 96 1.2 chopps 97 1.2 chopps Repeat the above two steps for all of the sets you wish to 98 1.2 chopps upgrade. (For each, change into the directory containing the 99 1.2 chopps set, run "Set_tmp_dir" and accept the default path name, then 100 1.2 chopps run the "Extract <setname>" command.) 101 1.2 chopps 102 1.2 chopps If you were previously using the security distribution set, 103 1.2 chopps you MUST upgrade to the new version, or you will not be able 104 1.2 chopps to log in when the upgrade process is complete. Similarly, if 105 1.2 chopps you were not previously using the security set, you must NOT 106 1.2 chopps upgrade to the new version. 107 1.2 chopps 108 1.2 chopps When you are done upgrading all of the distribution sets you 109 1.2 chopps wish to upgrade, issue the command "Cleanup". It will clean 110 1.2 chopps up the installation, by remaking some system databases. When 111 1.2 chopps it is complete, you should use "halt" to halt the system. 112 1.2 chopps 113 1.2.2.2 chopps You will probably also want to copy the release "netbsd" kernel 114 1.2.2.2 chopps image to your root at some point. 115 1.2.2.2 chopps 116 1.2 chopps Your system has now been upgraded to NetBSD 1.1. 117 1.2 chopps 118 1.2 chopps After a new kernel has been copied to your hard disk, your 119 1.2 chopps machine is a complete NetBSD 1.1 system. However, that 120 1.2 chopps doesn't mean that you're finished with the upgrade process. 121 1.2 chopps There are several things that you should do, or might have to 122 1.2 chopps do, to insure that the system works properly. 123 1.2 chopps 124 1.2 chopps First, if you did not upgrade your file systems to the new 125 1.2 chopps file system format during the upgrade process, you may want to 126 1.2 chopps do so now, with "fsck -c 2". If you are unsure about the 127 1.2 chopps process, it's suggested that you read the fsck(8) manual page. 128 1.2 chopps 129 1.2 chopps Second, you will probably want to get the etc11 distribution, 130 1.2 chopps extract it, and compare its contents with those in your /etc/ 131 1.2 chopps directory. You will probably want to replace some of your 132 1.2 chopps system configuration files, or incorporate some of the changes 133 1.2 chopps in the new versions into yours. 134 1.2 chopps 135 1.2 chopps Third, you will probably want to update the set of device 136 1.2 chopps nodes you have in /dev. If you've changed the contents of 137 1.2 chopps /dev by hand, you will need to be careful about this, but if 138 1.2 chopps not, you can just cd into /dev, and run the command "sh 139 1.2 chopps MAKEDEV all". 140 1.2 chopps 141 1.2 chopps Fourth, you must deal with certain changes in the formats of 142 1.2 chopps some of the configuration files. The most notable change is 143 1.2 chopps that the "options" given to many of the file systems in 144 1.2 chopps /etc/fstab or by hand have changed, and some of the file 145 1.2 chopps systems have changed names. To find out what the new options 146 1.2 chopps are, it's suggested that you read the manual page for the 147 1.2 chopps file systems' mount commands, for example mount_nfs(8) for 148 1.2 chopps NFS. (Note that the information for mounts of type "ufs", 149 1.2 chopps i.e. Fast File Systems, are contained in the mount(8) man 150 1.2 chopps page.) 151 1.2 chopps 152 1.2 chopps Finally, you will want to delete old binaries that were part 153 1.2 chopps of the version of NetBSD that you upgraded from and have since 154 1.2 chopps been removed from the NetBSD distribution. You might also 155 1.2 chopps want to recompile any locally-built binaries, to take 156 1.2 chopps advantage of the shared libraries. (Note that any new 157 1.2 chopps binaries that you build will be dynamically linked, and 158 1.2 chopps therefore take advantage of the shared libraries, by default. 159 1.2 chopps For information on how to make statically linked binaries, 160 1.2 chopps see the cc(1) and ld(1) manual pages.) 161
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