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1Installation is supported from several media types, including: 2 AmigaDOS HD partitions 3 Tape 4 NFS partitions 5 FTP 6 NetBSD partitions, if doing an upgrade. 7 8The miniroot file system needs to be transferred to the NetBSD swap 9partition. This can be done from AmigaDOS in the case of a new 10install or upgrade, or from NetBSD when doing an upgrade. See the 11"Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" section for details. 12 13The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 14for installation depend on which method of installation 15you choose. The various methods are explained below. 16 17To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition: 18 19 To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to 20 get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install 21 on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition. All of the 22 set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory 23 instead of separate ones for each distribution set. This 24 will also simplify the installation work later on. 25 26 Note where you place the files you will need this later. 27 28 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 29 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 30 31To prepare for installing via a tape: 32 33 To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow 34 get the NetBSD file sets you wish to install on 35 your system on to the appropriate kind of tape. 36 37 If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest 38 way to do so is: 39 40 dd if=<first file> of=<tape device> 41 dd if=<2nd file> of=<tape device> 42 ... 43 44 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the non-rewinding tape 45 device that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly 46 something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-). 47 If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator. 48 "<files>" are the names of the "set_name.tgz" files 49 which you want to be placed on the tape. 50 51 If you have a slow cpu (e.g. 68030 @ 25 MHz) on the target 52 machine, but big tapes, you might want to store the 53 uncompressed installation sets instead. This will help tape 54 streaming when doing the actual installation. E.g, do: 55 56 gzip -d -c <first file> | dd of=<tape device> 57 gzip -d -c <2nd file> | dd of=<tape device> 58 ... 59 60 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 61 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 62 63To 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 86To 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 106If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing 107NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing 108file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the 109following: 110 111 Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in 112 your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must 113 upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the 114 "base" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, 115 you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade 116 the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system 117 configuration files that you should review and update by hand. 118 119 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in 120 the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. 121