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1 1.1 glass Installation is supported from several media types, including: 2 1.1 glass Tape 3 1.2 thorpej CD-ROM 4 1.2 thorpej NFS 5 1.1 glass FTP 6 1.1 glass 7 1.1 glass The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 8 1.1 glass for installation depend on which method of installation 9 1.1 glass you choose. The various methods are explained below. 10 1.1 glass 11 1.1 glass To prepare for installing via a tape: 12 1.1 glass 13 1.2 thorpej If you wish to load SYS_INST from tape, it must 14 1.2 thorpej appear on the tape before any other files. To copy 15 1.2 thorpej this onto tape, use a command like the following: 16 1.2 thorpej 17 1.2 thorpej dd if=SYS_INST of=<tape_device> bs=20b 18 1.2 thorpej 19 1.2 thorpej Note that not all HP BOOTROMs support booting from 20 1.2 thorpej SCSI tapes. 21 1.2 thorpej 22 1.2 thorpej Copying the miniroot to disk from tape is not currently 23 1.2 thorpej supported. However, it is planned for a future release. 24 1.2 thorpej 25 1.2 thorpej If you wish to extract binary sets onto your disk from 26 1.2 thorpej tape, you must first place them on the tape. The easiest 27 1.2 thorpej way to do this is with the dd(1) command. Make sure you 28 1.2 thorpej use a `no-rewind-on-close' tape device. For example: 29 1.2 thorpej 30 1.2 thorpej for file in base11.tar.gz etc11.tar.gz; do 31 1.2 thorpej dd if=${file} of=/dev/nrst0 bs=20b 32 1.2 thorpej done 33 1.2 thorpej 34 1.2 thorpej Note that depending on your tape drive, you may need to 35 1.2 thorpej explicitly set the EOF marker at the end of each file. 36 1.2 thorpej It may also be necessary to use the `conv=osync' argument 37 1.2 thorpej to dd(1). Note that this argument is incompatible with the 38 1.2 thorpej `bs=' argument. Consult the tape-related manual pages on the 39 1.2 thorpej system where the tapes are created for more details. 40 1.2 thorpej 41 1.2 thorpej To prepare for installing via NFS: 42 1.2 thorpej 43 1.2 thorpej SYS_INST currently requires an NFS server from which to 44 1.2 thorpej copy the miniroot. 45 1.2 thorpej 46 1.2 thorpej * This filesystem must be exported with root permissions, 47 1.2 thorpej but may be exported read-only. 48 1.2 thorpej 49 1.2 thorpej * The miniroot image _must_ reside in the `root' of the 50 1.2 thorpej mounted filesystem. For example, if the client system 51 1.2 thorpej mounts `server:/u', then the miniroot image must reside 52 1.2 thorpej in /u on the server. This is due to limitations in the 53 1.2 thorpej file lookup code used in SYS_INST, and may be fixed in 54 1.2 thorpej a future release. 55 1.2 thorpej 56 1.2 thorpej * If you also wish to install the binary sets from the 57 1.2 thorpej NFS server, place them in a properly exported filesystem 58 1.2 thorpej on the server. Note that these files do not suffer from 59 1.2 thorpej the same placement restrictions as the miniroot. 60 1.1 glass 61 1.1 glass To prepare for installing via FTP: 62 1.1 glass 63 1.2 thorpej It is possible, using the `install' and `upgrade' 64 1.2 thorpej programs in the miniroot, to extract the binary sets 65 1.2 thorpej directly onto disk from an FTP server. This is by far 66 1.2 thorpej the easiest installation method, as you may specify to 67 1.2 thorpej have all sets extracted at once, providing that they 68 1.2 thorpej are located in the same directory on the server. 69 1.2 thorpej 70 1.2 thorpej All that is required in this case is that you have 71 1.2 thorpej network access to an FTP server. This may be your 72 1.2 thorpej account on another system, or may even be ftp.NetBSD.ORG 73 1.2 thorpej itself. If you wish to use ftp.NetBSD.ORG as your FTP 74 1.2 thorpej file server, you may want to keep the following information 75 1.2 thorpej handy: 76 1.2 thorpej 77 1.2 thorpej IP Address: 205.149.163.23 78 1.2 thorpej Login: anonymous 79 1.2 thorpej Password: <your e-mail address> 80 1.2 thorpej Server path: /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.1/hp300/binary 81
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