xfer revision 1.2 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.
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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:
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17 dd if=inst-10.fs of=/dev/rfd0a bs=11b
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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