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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 The miniroot file system needs to be transferred to the NetBSD swap
      9 partition.  This can be done from AmigaDOS in the case of a new
     10 install or upgrade, or from NetBSD when doing an upgrade.  See the
     11 "Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" section for details.
     12 
     13 The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
     14 for installation depend on which method of installation
     15 you choose.  The various methods are explained below.
     16 
     17 To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition:
     18 
     19 	To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to
     20 	get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install
     21 	on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition.  All of the
     22 	set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory
     23 	instead of separate ones for each distribution set.  This
     24 	will also simplify the installation work later on.
     25 
     26 	Note where you place the files you will need this later.
     27 
     28 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     29 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
     30 
     31 To prepare for installing via a tape:
     32 
     33 	To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow
     34 	get the NetBSD file sets you wish to install on
     35 	your system on to the appropriate kind of tape.
     36 
     37 	If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest
     38 	way to do so is:
     39 
     40 		dd if=<first file> of=<tape device>
     41 		dd if=<2nd file> of=<tape device>
     42 		...
     43 
     44 	where "<tape_device>" is the name of the non-rewinding tape
     45 	device that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly
     46 	something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-).
     47 	If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.
     48 	"<files>" are the names of the "set_name.tgz" files
     49 	which you want to be placed on the tape.
     50 
     51 	If you have a slow cpu (e.g. 68030 @ 25 MHz) on the target
     52 	machine, but big tapes, you might want to store the
     53 	uncompressed installation sets instead.  This will help tape
     54 	streaming when doing the actual installation. E.g, do:
     55 
     56 		gzip -d -c <first file> | dd of=<tape device>
     57 		gzip -d -c <2nd file> | dd of=<tape device>
     58 		...
     59 
     60 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     61 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
     62 
     63 To prepare for installing via an NFS partition:
     64 
     65 	NOTE: this method of installation is recommended
     66 	      only for those already familiar with using
     67 	      the BSD network-manipulation commands and
     68 	      interfaces.  If you aren't, this documentation
     69 	      should help, but is not intended to be
     70 	      all-encompassing.
     71 
     72 	Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into
     73 	a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory
     74 	mountable by the machine which you will be installing
     75 	NetBSD on.  This will probably require modifying the
     76 	/etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting
     77 	mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges.
     78 	Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of
     79 	the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine,
     80 	if the NFS server is not on a network which is
     81 	directly attached to the NetBSD machine.
     82 
     83 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     84 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
     85 
     86 To prepare for installing via FTP:
     87 
     88 	NOTE: this method of installation is recommended
     89 	      only for those already familiar with using
     90 	      the BSD network-manipulation commands and
     91 	      interfaces.  If you aren't, this documentation
     92 	      should help, but is not intended to be
     93 	      all-encompassing.
     94 
     95 	The preparations for this method of installation
     96 	are easy: all you have to do is make sure that
     97 	there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve
     98 	the NetBSD installation when it's time to do
     99 	the install.  You should know the numeric IP
    100 	address of that site, the numeric IP address of
    101 	your nearest router if one is necessary
    102 
    103 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
    104 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
    105 
    106 If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing
    107 NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing
    108 file system, and using them from there.  To do that, you must do the
    109 following:
    110 
    111 	Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in
    112 	your current file system tree.  At a bare minimum, you must
    113 	upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the
    114 	"base" set somewhere in your file system.  If you wish,
    115 	you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade
    116 	the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system
    117 	configuration files that you should review and update by hand.
    118 
    119 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in
    120 	the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system.
    121