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1 Installation is supported from several media types, including: 2 AmigaDOS HD partitions 3 Tape 4 NFS partitions 5 FTP 6 7 No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have one disk handy, 8 on which you will put the install floppy image. 9 10 All the images are available from the directory "amiga/floppies", 11 under the root of the NetBSD tree at your favorite archive site. 12 13 If you are using NetBSD/amiga to make the floppies, you should use 14 the command dd(1) to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to 15 the disk. To write onto fd0 use: 16 17 dd if=inst-10.fs of=/dev/rfd0a bs=11b 18 19 If you are using AmigaDOS to make the floppies, you should 20 use the rawwrite utility, provided in the directory 21 "amiga/utilities" in the distribution. To write the image to 22 the floppy in df0 use (from cli): 23 24 rawwrite 0 inst-10.fs 25 26 The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 27 for installation depend on which method of installation 28 you choose. The various methods are explained below. 29 30 To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition: 31 32 To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to 33 get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install 34 on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition. 35 36 Note where you place the files you will need this later. 37 38 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 39 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 40 41 To prepare for installing via a tape: 42 43 To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to be somehow 44 to get the NetBSD filesets you wish to install on 45 your system on to the appropriate kind of tape, 46 in tar format. 47 48 If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest 49 way to do so is: 50 51 tar cvf <tape_device> <files> 52 53 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device 54 that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly 55 something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-). 56 If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator. 57 "<files>" are the names of the "set_name.nnn" files 58 which you want to be placed on the tape. 59 60 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 61 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 62 63 To prepare for installing via an NFS partition: 64 65 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 66 only for those already familiar with using 67 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 68 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 69 should help, but is not intended to be 70 all-encompassing. 71 72 Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into 73 a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory 74 mountable by the machine which you will be installing 75 NetBSD on. This will probably require modifying the 76 /etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting 77 mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges. 78 Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of 79 the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine, 80 if the NFS server is not on a network which is 81 directly attached to the NetBSD machine. 82 83 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 84 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 85 86 To prepare for installing via FTP: 87 88 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 89 only for those already familiar with using 90 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 91 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 92 should help, but is not intended to be 93 all-encompassing. 94 95 The preparations for this method of installation 96 are easy: all you have to do is make sure that 97 there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve 98 the NetBSD installation when it's time to do 99 the install. You should know the numeric IP 100 address of that site, the numeric IP address of 101 your nearest router if one is necessary 102 103 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 104 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 105
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