xfer revision 1.9
1 $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.9 1998/01/14 06:50:28 scottr 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 "installation/floppies" 11under the root of the NetBSD/atari 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.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 23 rawwrite miniroot.fs 24 25This will create the boot-floppy on the floppy in drive a. The floppies 26should be pre-formatted on 720Kb/1.44Mb for both the 'dd' and 'rawwrite' 27commands to work. Pre-formatting can be best done using the desktop format 28command. Some other utilities seem to be giving problems. 29 30Since the 1.3 release, it is also possible to use HD-floppies. You should 31than use the floppy device '/dev/rfd0c' or add the '-H' flag to 'rawwrite'. 32 33 34The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 35for installation depend on which method of installation 36you choose. The various methods are explained below. 37 38To prepare for installing via an GEMDOS partition: 39 40 To install NetBSD from an GEMDOS partition, you need to 41 get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install 42 on your system on to an GEMDOS partition. 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-1.3/atari/binary/sets 57 T=<tape_device> 58 mt -f $T rewind 59 for f in base etc comp games man misc text 60 dd if=$f.tgz 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