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1 $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.11 1998/01/09 18:45:50 perry Exp $ 2 3 Installation is supported from several media types, including: 4 AmigaDOS HD partitions 5 Tape 6 NFS partitions 7 FTP 8 NetBSD partitions, if doing an upgrade. 9 10 The miniroot file system needs to be transferred to the NetBSD swap 11 partition. This can be done from AmigaDOS in the case of a new 12 install or upgrade, or from NetBSD when doing an upgrade. See the 13 "Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" section for details. 14 15 The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 16 for installation depend on which method of installation 17 you choose. The various methods are explained below. 18 19 To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition: 20 21 To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to 22 get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install 23 on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition. All of the 24 set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory 25 instead of separate ones for each distribution set. This 26 will also simplify the installation work later on. 27 28 Note where you place the files you will need this later. 29 30 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 31 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 32 33 To prepare for installing via a tape: 34 35 To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow 36 get the NetBSD file sets you wish to install on 37 your system on to the appropriate kind of tape. 38 39 If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest 40 way to do so is: 41 42 dd if=<first file> of=<tape device> 43 dd if=<2nd file> of=<tape device> 44 ... 45 46 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the non-rewinding tape 47 device that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly 48 something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-). 49 If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator. 50 "<files>" are the names of the "set_name.tgz" files 51 which you want to be placed on the tape. 52 53 If you have a slow cpu (e.g. 68030 @ 25 MHz) on the target 54 machine, but big tapes, you might want to store the 55 uncompressed installation sets instead. This will help tape 56 streaming when doing the actual installation. E.g, do: 57 58 gzip -d -c <first file> | dd of=<tape device> 59 gzip -d -c <2nd file> | dd of=<tape device> 60 ... 61 62 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 63 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 64 65 To prepare for installing via an NFS partition: 66 67 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 68 only for those already familiar with using 69 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 70 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 71 should help, but is not intended to be 72 all-encompassing. 73 74 Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into 75 a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory 76 mountable by the machine which you will be installing 77 NetBSD on. This will probably require modifying the 78 /etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting 79 mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges. 80 Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of 81 the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine, 82 if the NFS server is not on a network which is 83 directly attached to the NetBSD machine. 84 85 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 86 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 87 88 To prepare for installing via FTP: 89 90 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 91 only for those already familiar with using 92 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 93 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 94 should help, but is not intended to be 95 all-encompassing. 96 97 The preparations for this method of installation 98 are easy: all you have to do is make sure that 99 there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve 100 the NetBSD installation when it's time to do 101 the install. You should know the numeric IP 102 address of that site, the numeric IP address of 103 your nearest router if one is necessary 104 105 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 106 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 107 108 If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing 109 NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing 110 file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the 111 following: 112 113 Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in 114 your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must 115 upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the 116 "base" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, 117 you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade 118 the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system 119 configuration files that you should review and update by hand. 120 121 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in 122 the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. 123
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