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1 $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.8 1998/01/09 18:46:13 perry Exp $ 2 3Installation is supported from several media types, including: 4 * TOS HD partitions 5 * Tape 6 7No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have three disks handy, 8on which you will put the install and boot floppy images. 9 10All the images are available from the directory "atari/floppies", 11under the root of the NetBSD tree at your favorite archive site. 12 13If you are using NetBSD/atari to make the floppies, you should use 14the command dd(1) to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to 15the disk. As an example, to write the first part of the miniroot filesystem 16onto a 720Kb floppy in fd0 use: 17 18 dd if=miniroot-_SVER_S.fs.1 of=/dev/rfd0b bs=9b 19 20If you are using TOS to make the floppies, grab the 'rawwrite' utility 21from the "atari/utils" directory and issue the command: 22 rawwrite miniroot-_SVER_S.fs 23 24This will create the boot-floppy on the floppy in drive a. The floppies 25should be pre-formatted on 720Kb/1.44Mb for both the 'dd' and 'rawwrite' 26commands to work. Pre-formatting can be best done using the desktop format 27command. Some other utilities seem to be giving problems. 28 29Since the 1.3 release, it is also possible to use HD-floppies. You should 30than use the floppy device '/dev/rfd0c' or add the '-H' flag to 'rawwrite'. 31 32 33The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 34for installation depend on which method of installation 35you choose. The various methods are explained below. 36 37To prepare for installing via an GEMDOS partition: 38 39 To install NetBSD from an GEMDOS partition, you need to 40 get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install 41 on your system on to an GEMDOS partition. Rename the 42 sets from xxx.tar.gz to xxx.tgz. 43 44 Note where you placed 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 49To 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. If you make 54 the tape on a UN*X-like system, you can create it as follows: 55 56 cd .../NetBSD-1.2/atari/binary 57 T=<tape_device> 58 mt -f $T rewind 59 for f in base etc comp games man misc text 60 dd if=$f.tar.gz of=$T conv=sync bs=5k 61 done 62 mt -f $T rewind 63 64 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the (non-rewinding!) tape 65 device that you're using (probably something like /dev/nrst0, 66 but we make no guarantees 8-). 67 If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator. 68 69 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 70 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. 71