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      1 Installation is supported from several media types, including:
      2 	TOS HD partitions
      3 	Tape
      4 
      5 No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have three disks handy,
      6 on which you will put the install and boot floppy images.
      7 
      8 All the images are available from the directory "atari/floppies",
      9 under the root of the NetBSD tree at your favorite archive site.
     10 
     11 If you are using NetBSD/atari to make the floppies, you should use
     12 the command dd(1) to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to
     13 the disk. To write onto fd0 use:
     14 
     15 	dd if=miniroot-12.fs.1 of=/dev/rfd0b bs=9b
     16 
     17 If you are using TOS to make the floppies, grab the 'rawwrite' utility
     18 from the "atari/utils" directory and issue the command:
     19 	rawwrite miniroot-12.fs
     20 
     21 This will create the boot-floppy on the floppy in drive a. The floppies
     22 should be pre-formatted on 720Kb for both the 'dd' and 'rawwrite' commands
     23 to work. Pre-formatting can be best done using the desktop format command.
     24 Some other utilities seem to be giving problems.
     25 
     26 The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
     27 for installation depend on which method of installation
     28 you choose.  The various methods are explained below.
     29 
     30 To prepare for installing via an GEMDOS partition:
     31 
     32 	To install NetBSD from an GEMDOS partition, you need to
     33 	get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install
     34 	on your system on to an GEMDOS partition.  Rename the
     35 	sets from xxx.tar.gz to xxx.tgz. 
     36 
     37 	Note where you placed the files you will need this later.
     38 
     39 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     40 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
     41 
     42 To prepare for installing via a tape:
     43 
     44 	To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow
     45 	get the NetBSD filesets you wish to install on
     46 	your system on to the appropriate kind of tape,
     47 	in tar format.
     48 
     49 	If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest
     50 	way to do so is:
     51 
     52 		tar cvf <tape_device> <files>
     53 
     54 	where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device
     55 	that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly
     56 	something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-).
     57 	If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.
     58 	"<files>" are the names of the "set_name.nnn" files
     59 	which you want to be placed on the tape.
     60 
     61 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     62 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
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