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1Installation is supported from several media types, including: 2 AmigaDOS HD partitions 3 Tape 4 NFS partitions 5 FTP 6 7No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have one disk handy, 8on which you will put the install floppy image. 9 10All the images are available from the directory "amiga/floppies", 11under the root of the NetBSD tree at your favorite archive site. 12 13If you are using NetBSD/amiga to make the floppies, you should use 14the command dd(1) to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to 15the disk. To write onto fd0 use: 16 17 dd if=inst-10.fs of=/dev/rfd0a bs=11b 18 19If you are using AmigaDOS to make the floppies, you should 20use the rawwrite utility, provided in the directory 21"amiga/utilities" in the distribution. To write the image to 22the floppy in df0 use (from cli): 23 24 rawwrite 0 inst-10.fs 25 26The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 27for installation depend on which method of installation 28you choose. The various methods are explained below. 29 30To 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 44To 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 66To 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 89To 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