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1 1.2.2.2 cgd Installation is supported from several media types, including: 2 1.2.2.2 cgd 3 1.2.2.2 cgd DOS floppies 4 1.2.2.2 cgd Tape 5 1.2.2.2 cgd Remote NFS partition 6 1.2.2.2 cgd FTP 7 1.2.2.2 cgd 8 1.2.2.2 cgd No matter which installation medium you choose, you'll need to have 9 1.2.2.2 cgd two floppy disks available (either 1.2M or 1.44 will work, though 10 1.2.2.2 cgd both should be the same type). On the first, you'll put the 11 1.2.2.2 cgd kernel-copy image that's appropriate for your system. On the second, 12 1.2.2.2 cgd you'll put the install or upgrade floppy image, depending on whether 13 1.2.2.2 cgd you're installing NetBSD for the first time, or upgrading a previous 14 1.2.2.2 cgd installation. 15 1.2.2.2 cgd 16 1.2.2.2 cgd If you are using an Adaptec AHA-154x or Buslogic BT-54x SCSI host 17 1.2.2.2 cgd adapter, you need the kcaha-10.fs kernel-copy image. If you're using 18 1.2.2.2 cgd a Buslogic BT-445, BT-74x, or BT-9xx SCSI host adapter, you'll need 19 1.2.2.2 cgd the kcbt-10.fs image. If you're using a disk controller other than 20 1.2.2.2 cgd those mentioned above, either kernel-copy disk image will work for 21 1.2.2.2 cgd you. 22 1.2.2.2 cgd 23 1.2.2.2 cgd If you are using a UN*X-like system to write the floppy images to 24 1.2.2.2 cgd disks, you should use the "dd" command to copy the file system images 25 1.2.2.2 cgd (.fs files) directly to the raw floppy disks. It is suggested that 26 1.2.2.2 cgd you read the dd(1) manual page or ask your system administrator to 27 1.2.2.2 cgd determine the correct set of arguments to use; it will be slightly 28 1.2.2.2 cgd different from system to system, and a comprehensive list of the 29 1.2.2.2 cgd possibilities is beyond the scope of this document. 30 1.2.2.2 cgd 31 1.2.2.2 cgd If you are using DOS to write the floppy images to disks, you should 32 1.2.2.2 cgd use the "rawrite" utility, provided in the "i386/utilities" directory 33 1.2.2.2 cgd of the NetBSD distribution. It will write the file system images (.fs 34 1.2.2.2 cgd files) to disks. 35 1.2.2.2 cgd 36 1.2.2.2 cgd Note that, when installing, the kernel-copy floppy can be write-protected 37 1.2.2.2 cgd (i.e. read-only), but the install floppy MUST not be write-protected. 38 1.2.2.2 cgd The install program needs to write some temporary files, and if the 39 1.2.2.2 cgd disk is write-protected, it can't. If you're upgrading your system, 40 1.2.2.2 cgd both the kernel-copy and upgrade floppies may be write-protected. 41 1.2.2.2 cgd 42 1.2.2.2 cgd Obviously, the steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for 43 1.2.2.2 cgd installation or upgrade depend on which installation medium you 44 1.2.2.2 cgd choose. The steps for the various media are outlined below. 45 1.2.2.2 cgd 46 1.2.2.2 cgd To install or upgrade NetBSD using DOS floppies, you need to do the 47 1.2.2.2 cgd following: 48 1.2.2.2 cgd 49 1.2.2.2 cgd NOTE THAT THE NetBSD 1.0 DISTRIBUTION DOES _NOT_ SUPPORT 50 1.2.2.2 cgd INSTALLATION VIA FLOPPY ON MACHINES WITH ONE FLOPPY DRIVE. 51 1.2.2.2 cgd If you only have one floppy drive, it is recommended that you 52 1.2.2.2 cgd install/upgrade the minimum sets (i.e. base10 and etc10 for 53 1.2.2.2 cgd installation, base10 only for upgrade) via another method, 54 1.2.2.2 cgd then load and extract the remaining sets by hand. This will 55 1.2.2.2 cgd be fixed in a future release. 56 1.2.2.2 cgd 57 1.2.2.2 cgd Count the number of "set_name.xx" files that make up the 58 1.2.2.2 cgd distribution sets you want to install or upgrade. You will 59 1.2.2.2 cgd need one fifth that number of 1.2M floppies, or one sixth that 60 1.2.2.2 cgd number of 1.44M floppies. You should only use one size of 61 1.2.2.2 cgd floppy for the install or upgrade procedure; you can't use 62 1.2.2.2 cgd some 1.2M floppies and some 1.44M floppies. Additionally, 63 1.2.2.2 cgd note that you can't boot and load the distributions from the 64 1.2.2.2 cgd same floppy drive. In other words, if you're booting the 65 1.2.2.2 cgd install floppies from one drive, you will be reading these 66 1.2.2.2 cgd floppies from the _other_, so be sure to use the right type 67 1.2.2.2 cgd of floppies! 68 1.2.2.2 cgd 69 1.2.2.2 cgd Format all of the floppies with DOS. DO NOT make any of them 70 1.2.2.2 cgd bootable DOS floppies, i.e. don't use "format/s" to format 71 1.2.2.2 cgd them. (If the floppies are bootable, then the DOS system 72 1.2.2.2 cgd files that make them bootable will take up some space, and you 73 1.2.2.2 cgd won't be able to fit as many distribution set parts per disk.) 74 1.2.2.2 cgd If you're using floppies that are formatted for DOS by their 75 1.2.2.2 cgd manufacturers, they probably aren't bootable, and you can use 76 1.2.2.2 cgd them out of the box. 77 1.2.2.2 cgd 78 1.2.2.2 cgd Place all of the "set_name.xx" files on the DOS disks, five 79 1.2.2.2 cgd per disk if you're using 1.2M disks, six per disk if you're 80 1.2.2.2 cgd using 1.44M disks. How you do this is up to you; there are 81 1.2.2.2 cgd many possibilities. You could, for instance, use a DOS 82 1.2.2.2 cgd terminal program to download them on to the floppies, or use 83 1.2.2.2 cgd a UN*X-like system capable of reading and writing DOS file 84 1.2.2.2 cgd systems (either with "mtools" or a real DOS file system) 85 1.2.2.2 cgd to place them on the disk. 86 1.2.2.2 cgd 87 1.2.2.2 cgd Once you have the files on DOS disks, you can proceed to the 88 1.2.2.2 cgd next step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're 89 1.2.2.2 cgd installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing 90 1.2.2.2 cgd your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing 91 1.2.2.2 cgd installation, go directly to the section on upgrading. 92 1.2.2.2 cgd 93 1.2.2.2 cgd To install or upgrade NetBSD using a tape, you need to do the 94 1.2.2.2 cgd following: 95 1.2.2.2 cgd 96 1.2.2.2 cgd To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to make a tape that 97 1.2.2.2 cgd contains the distribution set files, in "tar" format. If 98 1.2.2.2 cgd you're making the tape on a UN*X-like system, the easiest way 99 1.2.2.2 cgd to do so is probably something like: 100 1.2.2.2 cgd 101 1.2.2.2 cgd tar cf <tape_device> <dist_directories> 102 1.2.2.2 cgd 103 1.2.2.2 cgd where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device that 104 1.2.2.2 cgd describes the tape drive you're using (possibly /dev/rst0, or 105 1.2.2.2 cgd something similar, but it will vary from system to system. 106 1.2.2.2 cgd (If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.) 107 1.2.2.2 cgd In the above example, "<dist_directories>" are the 108 1.2.2.2 cgd distribution sets' directories, for the distribution sets you 109 1.2.2.2 cgd wish to place on the tape. For instance, to put the "base10" 110 1.2.2.2 cgd and "etc10" distributions on tape (in order to do the absolute 111 1.2.2.2 cgd minimum installation to a new disk), you would do the 112 1.2.2.2 cgd following: 113 1.2.2.2 cgd 114 1.2.2.2 cgd cd .../NetBSD-1.0 # the top of the tree 115 1.2.2.2 cgd cd i386/binary 116 1.2.2.2 cgd tar cf <tape_device> base10 etc10 117 1.2.2.2 cgd 118 1.2.2.2 cgd (Note that you still need to fill in "<tape_device>" in the 119 1.2.2.2 cgd example.) 120 1.2.2.2 cgd 121 1.2.2.2 cgd Once you have the files on the tape, you can proceed to the 122 1.2.2.2 cgd next step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're 123 1.2.2.2 cgd installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing 124 1.2.2.2 cgd your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing 125 1.2.2.2 cgd installation, go directly to the section on upgrading. 126 1.2.2.2 cgd 127 1.2.2.2 cgd To install or upgrade NetBSD using a remote partition, mounted via 128 1.2.2.2 cgd NFS, you must do the following: 129 1.2.2.2 cgd 130 1.2.2.2 cgd NOTE: This method of installation is recommended only for 131 1.2.2.2 cgd those already familiar with using BSD network 132 1.2.2.2 cgd configuration and management commands. If you aren't, 133 1.2.2.2 cgd this documentation should help, but is not intended to 134 1.2.2.2 cgd be all-encompassing. 135 1.2.2.2 cgd 136 1.2.2.2 cgd Place the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install into a 137 1.2.2.2 cgd directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable 138 1.2.2.2 cgd by the machine on which you are installing or upgrading NetBSD. 139 1.2.2.2 cgd This will probably require modifying the /etc/exports file on 140 1.2.2.2 cgd of the NFS server and resetting its mount daemon (mountd). 141 1.2.2.2 cgd (Both of these actions will probably require superuser 142 1.2.2.2 cgd privileges on the server.) 143 1.2.2.2 cgd 144 1.2.2.2 cgd You need to know the the numeric IP address of the NFS server, 145 1.2.2.2 cgd and, if the server is not on a network directly connected to 146 1.2.2.2 cgd the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, 147 1.2.2.2 cgd you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest 148 1.2.2.2 cgd to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric 149 1.2.2.2 cgd IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. 150 1.2.2.2 cgd 151 1.2.2.2 cgd Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the 152 1.2.2.2 cgd information mentioned above, you can proceed to the next step 153 1.2.2.2 cgd in the installation or upgrade process. If you're installing 154 1.2.2.2 cgd NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing your hard 155 1.2.2.2 cgd disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing installation, go 156 1.2.2.2 cgd directly to the section on upgrading. 157 1.2.2.2 cgd 158 1.2.2.2 cgd To install or upgrade NetBSD by using FTP to get the installation 159 1.2.2.2 cgd sets, you must do the following: 160 1.2.2.2 cgd 161 1.2.2.2 cgd NOTE: This method of installation is recommended only for 162 1.2.2.2 cgd those already familiar with using BSD network 163 1.2.2.2 cgd configuration and management commands. If you aren't, 164 1.2.2.2 cgd this documentation should help, but is not intended to 165 1.2.2.2 cgd be all-encompassing. 166 1.2.2.2 cgd 167 1.2.2.2 cgd The preparations for this installation/upgrade method are 168 1.2.2.2 cgd easy; all you make sure that there's some FTP site from which 169 1.2.2.2 cgd you can retrieve the NetBSD distribution when you're about to 170 1.2.2.2 cgd install or upgrade. You need to know the numeric IP address 171 1.2.2.2 cgd of that site, and, if it's not on a network directly connected 172 1.2.2.2 cgd to the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, 173 1.2.2.2 cgd you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest 174 1.2.2.2 cgd to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric 175 1.2.2.2 cgd IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. 176 1.2.2.2 cgd 177 1.2.2.2 cgd Once you have this information, you can proceed to the next 178 1.2.2.2 cgd step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're 179 1.2.2.2 cgd installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on 180 1.2.2.2 cgd preparing your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an 181 1.2.2.2 cgd existing installation, go directly to the section on 182 1.2.2.2 cgd upgrading. 183 1.2.2.2 cgd 184 1.2.2.2 cgd If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing 185 1.2.2.2 cgd NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing 186 1.2.2.2 cgd file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the 187 1.2.2.2 cgd following: 188 1.2.2.2 cgd 189 1.2.2.2 cgd Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in 190 1.2.2.2 cgd your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must 191 1.2.2.2 cgd upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the 192 1.2.2.2 cgd "base10" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, 193 1.2.2.2 cgd you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade 194 1.2.2.2 cgd the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system 195 1.2.2.2 cgd configuration files that you should review and update by hand. 196 1.2.2.2 cgd 197 1.2.2.2 cgd Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in 198 1.2.2.2 cgd the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. 199
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