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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.  All of the
     35 	set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory
     36 	instead of separate ones for each distribution set.  This
     37 	will also simplify the installation work later on.
     38 
     39 	Note where you place the files you will need this later.
     40 
     41 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     42 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
     43 
     44 To prepare for installing via a tape:
     45 
     46 	To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow
     47 	get the NetBSD filesets you wish to install on
     48 	your system on to the appropriate kind of tape,
     49 	in tar format.
     50 
     51 	If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest
     52 	way to do so is:
     53 
     54 		tar cvf <tape_device> <files>
     55 
     56 	where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device
     57 	that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly
     58 	something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-).
     59 	If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.
     60 	"<files>" are the names of the "set_name.nnn" files
     61 	which you want to be placed on the tape.
     62 
     63 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     64 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
     65 
     66 To prepare for installing via an NFS partition:
     67 
     68 	NOTE: this method of installation is recommended
     69 	      only for those already familiar with using
     70 	      the BSD network-manipulation commands and
     71 	      interfaces.  If you aren't, this documentation
     72 	      should help, but is not intended to be
     73 	      all-encompassing.
     74 
     75 	Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into
     76 	a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory
     77 	mountable by the machine which you will be installing
     78 	NetBSD on.  This will probably require modifying the
     79 	/etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting
     80 	mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges.
     81 	Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of
     82 	the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine,
     83 	if the NFS server is not on a network which is
     84 	directly attached to the NetBSD machine.
     85 
     86 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     87 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
     88 
     89 To prepare for installing via FTP:
     90 
     91 	NOTE: this method of installation is recommended
     92 	      only for those already familiar with using
     93 	      the BSD network-manipulation commands and
     94 	      interfaces.  If you aren't, this documentation
     95 	      should help, but is not intended to be
     96 	      all-encompassing.
     97 
     98 	The preparations for this method of installation
     99 	are easy: all you have to do is make sure that
    100 	there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve
    101 	the NetBSD installation when it's time to do
    102 	the install.  You should know the numeric IP
    103 	address of that site, the numeric IP address of
    104 	your nearest router if one is necessary
    105 
    106 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
    107 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
    108