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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 8The miniroot file system needs to be transferred to the NetBSD swap 9partition. This can be done from AmigaDOS in the case of a new 10install or upgrade, or from NetBSD when doing an upgrade. See the 11"Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" section for details. 12 13The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 14for installation depend on which method of installation 15you choose. The various methods are explained below. 16 17To 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 31To 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 in tar format. 37 38 If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest 39 way to do so is: 40 41 tar cvf <tape_device> <files> 42 43 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device 44 that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly 45 something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-). 46 If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator. 47 "<files>" are the names of the "set_name.xx" files 48 which you want to be placed on the tape. 49 50 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 51 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 52 53To prepare for installing via an NFS partition: 54 55 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 56 only for those already familiar with using 57 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 58 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 59 should help, but is not intended to be 60 all-encompassing. 61 62 Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into 63 a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory 64 mountable by the machine which you will be installing 65 NetBSD on. This will probably require modifying the 66 /etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting 67 mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges. 68 Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of 69 the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine, 70 if the NFS server is not on a network which is 71 directly attached to the NetBSD machine. 72 73 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 74 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 75 76To prepare for installing via FTP: 77 78 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 79 only for those already familiar with using 80 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 81 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 82 should help, but is not intended to be 83 all-encompassing. 84 85 The preparations for this method of installation 86 are easy: all you have to do is make sure that 87 there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve 88 the NetBSD installation when it's time to do 89 the install. You should know the numeric IP 90 address of that site, the numeric IP address of 91 your nearest router if one is necessary 92 93 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 94 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 95 96If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing 97NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing 98file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the 99following: 100 101 Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in 102 your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must 103 upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the 104 "base" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, 105 you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade 106 the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system 107 configuration files that you should review and update by hand. 108 109 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in 110 the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. 111