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1Installation is supported from several media types, including:
2	TOS HD partitions
3	Tape
4
5No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have three disks handy,
6on which you will put the install and boot floppy images.
7
8All the images are available from the directory "atari/floppies",
9under the root of the NetBSD tree at your favorite archive site.
10
11If you are using NetBSD/atari to make the floppies, you should use
12the command dd(1) to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to
13the disk. To write onto fd0 use:
14
15	dd if=miniroot-12.fs.1 of=/dev/rfd0b bs=9b
16
17If you are using TOS to make the floppies, grab the 'rawwrite' utility
18from the "atari/utils" directory and issue the command:
19	rawwrite miniroot-12.fs
20
21This will create the boot-floppy on the floppy in drive a. The floppies
22should be pre-formatted on 720Kb for both the 'dd' and 'rawwrite' commands
23to work. Pre-formatting can be best done using the desktop format command.
24Some other utilities seem to be giving problems.
25
26The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
27for installation depend on which method of installation
28you choose.  The various methods are explained below.
29
30To 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
42To 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.
63