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1 $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.12 1998/05/15 20:13:02 is 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 CD-ROM (but only SCSI CD-ROM) 10 11 The miniroot file system needs to be transferred to the NetBSD swap 12 partition. This can be done from AmigaDOS in the case of a new 13 install or upgrade, or from NetBSD when doing an upgrade. See the 14 "Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" section for details. 15 16 The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 17 for installation depend on which method of installation 18 you choose. The various methods are explained below. 19 20 To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition: 21 22 To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to 23 get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install 24 on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition. All of the 25 set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory 26 instead of separate ones for each distribution set. This 27 will also simplify the installation work later on. 28 29 Note where you place the files you will need this later. 30 31 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 32 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 33 34 To prepare for installing from CD-ROM: 35 36 To install NetBSD from a CD-ROM drive, make sure it is a SCSI 37 CD-ROM on a SCSI bus currently supported by NetBSD (refer to the 38 supported hardware list). If it is an ATAPI CD-ROM, or a 39 SCSI CD-ROM on a non-supported SCSI bus like CyberSCSI Mk.3, 40 Blizzard-3 SCSI, Apollo SCSI) you must first copy the distribution 41 sets to an AmigaDOS partition like described above. 42 43 If your SCSI CD-ROM is connected to a supported SCSI host adapter, 44 simply put the CD into the drive before installation. 45 46 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 47 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 48 49 To prepare for installing via a tape: 50 51 To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow 52 get the NetBSD file sets you wish to install on 53 your system on to the appropriate kind of tape. 54 55 If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest 56 way to do so is: 57 58 dd if=<first file> of=<tape device> 59 dd if=<2nd file> of=<tape device> 60 ... 61 62 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the non-rewinding tape 63 device that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly 64 something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-). 65 If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator. 66 "<files>" are the names of the "set_name.tgz" files 67 which you want to be placed on the tape. 68 69 If you have a slow cpu (e.g. 68030 @ 25 MHz) on the target 70 machine, but big tapes, you might want to store the 71 uncompressed installation sets instead. This will help tape 72 streaming when doing the actual installation. E.g, do: 73 74 gzip -d -c <first file> | dd of=<tape device> 75 gzip -d -c <2nd file> | dd of=<tape device> 76 ... 77 78 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 79 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 80 81 To prepare for installing via an NFS partition: 82 83 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 84 only for those already familiar with using 85 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 86 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 87 should help, but is not intended to be 88 all-encompassing. 89 90 Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into 91 a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory 92 mountable by the machine which you will be installing 93 NetBSD on. This will probably require modifying the 94 /etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting 95 mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges. 96 Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of 97 the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine, 98 if the NFS server is not on a network which is 99 directly attached to the NetBSD machine. 100 101 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 102 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 103 104 To prepare for installing via FTP: 105 106 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 107 only for those already familiar with using 108 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 109 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 110 should help, but is not intended to be 111 all-encompassing. 112 113 The preparations for this method of installation 114 are easy: all you have to do is make sure that 115 there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve 116 the NetBSD installation when it's time to do 117 the install. You should know the numeric IP 118 address of that site, the numeric IP address of 119 your nearest router if one is necessary 120 121 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 122 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 123 124 If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing 125 NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing 126 file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the 127 following: 128 129 Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in 130 your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must 131 upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the 132 "base" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, 133 you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade 134 the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system 135 configuration files that you should review and update by hand. 136 137 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in 138 the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. 139
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