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1Installation is supported from several media types, including: 2 AmigaDOS HD partitions 3 Tape 4 NFS partitions 5 FTP 6 NetBSD partitions, if doing an upgrade. 7 8>>> Transfering install/upgrade file system image to swap partition 9No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have one disk handy, 10on which you will put the install floppy image. 11 12All the images are available from the directory "amiga/floppies", 13>>> ^^^^^^^^ 14under the root of the NetBSD tree at your favorite archive site. 15 16If you are using NetBSD/amiga to make the floppies, you should use 17the command dd(1) to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to 18the disk. To write onto fd0 use: 19 20 dd if=inst-11.fs of=/dev/rfd0a bs=11b 21 22If you are using AmigaDOS to make the floppies, you should 23use the rawwrite utility, provided in the directory 24"amiga/utilities" in the distribution. To write the image to 25the floppy in df0 use (from cli): 26 27 rawwrite 0 inst-11.fs 28>>> fix above to document file system transfer to swap paritition 29>>> using xstreamtodev 30 31The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 32for installation depend on which method of installation 33you choose. The various methods are explained below. 34 35To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition: 36 37 To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to 38 get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install 39 on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition. All of the 40 set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory 41 instead of separate ones for each distribution set. This 42 will also simplify the installation work later on. 43 44 Note where you place the files you will need this later. 45 46 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 47 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 48 49To prepare for installing via a tape: 50 51 To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow 52 get the NetBSD filesets you wish to install on 53 your system on to the appropriate kind of tape, 54 in tar format. 55 56 If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest 57 way to do so is: 58 59 tar cvf <tape_device> <files> 60 61 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device 62 that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly 63 something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-). 64 If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator. 65 "<files>" are the names of the "set_name.nnn" files 66 which you want to be placed on the tape. 67 68 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 69 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 70 71To prepare for installing via an NFS partition: 72 73 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 74 only for those already familiar with using 75 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 76 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 77 should help, but is not intended to be 78 all-encompassing. 79 80 Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into 81 a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory 82 mountable by the machine which you will be installing 83 NetBSD on. This will probably require modifying the 84 /etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting 85 mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges. 86 Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of 87 the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine, 88 if the NFS server is not on a network which is 89 directly attached to the NetBSD machine. 90 91 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 92 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 93 94To prepare for installing via FTP: 95 96 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 97 only for those already familiar with using 98 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 99 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 100 should help, but is not intended to be 101 all-encompassing. 102 103 The preparations for this method of installation 104 are easy: all you have to do is make sure that 105 there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve 106 the NetBSD installation when it's time to do 107 the install. You should know the numeric IP 108 address of that site, the numeric IP address of 109 your nearest router if one is necessary 110 111 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 112 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 113 114If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing 115NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing 116file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the 117following: 118 119 Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in 120 your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must 121 upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the 122 "base11" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, 123 you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade 124 the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system 125 configuration files that you should review and update by hand. 126 127 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in 128 the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. 129