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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 	NetBSD partitions, if doing an upgrade.
      7 
      8 >>> Transfering install/upgrade file system image to swap partition
      9 No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have one disk handy,
     10 on which you will put the install floppy image.
     11 
     12 All the images are available from the directory "amiga/floppies",
     13 >>>                                                    ^^^^^^^^
     14 under the root of the NetBSD tree at your favorite archive site.
     15 
     16 If you are using NetBSD/amiga to make the floppies, you should use
     17 the command dd(1) to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to
     18 the disk. To write onto fd0 use:
     19 
     20 	dd if=inst-11.fs of=/dev/rfd0a bs=11b
     21 
     22 If you are using AmigaDOS to make the floppies, you should
     23 use the rawwrite utility, provided in the directory
     24 "amiga/utilities" in the distribution.  To write the image to
     25 the 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 
     31 The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
     32 for installation depend on which method of installation
     33 you choose.  The various methods are explained below.
     34 
     35 To 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 
     49 To 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 
     71 To 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 
     94 To 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 
    114 If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing
    115 NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing
    116 file system, and using them from there.  To do that, you must do the
    117 following:
    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