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1 $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.7 1998/01/09 18:46:25 perry Exp $ 2 3Installation is supported from several media types, including: 4 Tape 5 CD-ROM 6 NFS 7 FTP 8 9The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 10for installation depend on which method of installation 11you choose. The various methods are explained below. 12 13To prepare for installing via a tape: 14 15 If you wish to load SYS_INST from tape, it must 16 appear on the tape before any other files. To copy 17 this onto tape, use a command like the following: 18 19 dd if=SYS_INST of=<tape_device> obs=20b conv=osync 20 21 Note that not all HP BOOTROMs support booting from 22 SCSI tapes. 23 24 Copying the miniroot to disk from tape is not currently 25 supported. However, it is planned for a future release. 26 27 If you wish to extract binary sets onto your disk from 28 tape, you must first place them on the tape. The easiest 29 way to do this is with the dd(1) command. Make sure you 30 use a `no-rewind-on-close' tape device. For example: 31 32 for file in base.tgz etc.tgz; do 33 dd if=${file} of=/dev/nrst0 34 done 35 36 Note that depending on your tape drive, you may need to 37 explicitly set the EOF marker at the end of each file. 38 It may also be necessary to use the `conv=osync' argument 39 to dd(1). Note that this argument is incompatible with the 40 `bs=' argument. Consult the tape-related manual pages on the 41 system where the tapes are created for more details. 42 43To prepare for installing via NFS: 44 45 SYS_INST currently requires an NFS server from which to 46 copy the miniroot. 47 48 * This filesystem must be exported with root permissions, 49 but may be exported read-only. 50 51 * The miniroot image _must_ reside in the `root' of the 52 mounted filesystem. For example, if the client system 53 mounts `server:/u', then the miniroot image must reside 54 in /u on the server. This is due to limitations in the 55 file lookup code used in SYS_INST, and may be fixed in 56 a future release. 57 58 * If you also wish to install the binary sets from the 59 NFS server, place them in a properly exported filesystem 60 on the server. Note that these files do not suffer from 61 the same placement restrictions as the miniroot. 62 63To prepare for installing via FTP: 64 65 It is possible, using the `install' and `upgrade' 66 programs in the miniroot, to extract the binary sets 67 directly onto disk from an FTP server. This is by far 68 the easiest installation method, as you may specify to 69 have all sets extracted at once, providing that they 70 are located in the same directory on the server. 71 72 All that is required in this case is that you have 73 network access to an FTP server. This may be your 74 account on another system, or may even be ftp.NetBSD.ORG 75 itself. If you wish to use ftp.NetBSD.ORG as your FTP 76 file server, you may want to keep the following information 77 handy: 78 79 IP Address: ftp.NetBSD.ORG 80 Login: anonymous 81 Password: <your e-mail address> 82 Server path: /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-_VER/hp300/binary/sets 83 84 Note: if you're not using a nameserver during installation, 85 you might find 204.152.184.75 handy; it's the IP address of 86 ftp.NetBSD.ORG as of December, 29, 1997. 87