install revision 1.19 1 1.19 hubertf $NetBSD: install,v 1.19 1998/08/23 12:42:19 hubertf Exp $
2 1.16 perry
3 1.1 briggs The installation can be broken down into three basic steps:
4 1.1 briggs * Run Mkfs to build a filesystem or filesystems.
5 1.8 ender * Run the Installer to load the files onto your filesystems.
6 1.8 ender * Run the Booter to boot the system.
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8 1.1 briggs **** Preparing the filesystem(s)
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10 1.10 ender Double-click on the Mkfs application icon to start it up. It will ask you
11 1.10 ender for the SCSI ID of the drive that you are installing upon. Once this is
12 1.10 ender selected, it will present a list of the partitions on that disk. You must
13 1.10 ender first convert the partitions to a type which NetBSD can understand. Select
14 1.10 ender each partition on which you wish to build a filesystem and click on the
15 1.10 ender "Change" button. If you are placing the entire installation on a single
16 1.10 ender partition, select the "NetBSD Root&Usr" radio button. If you are using
17 1.10 ender multiple partitions, select "NetBSD Root" for the root partition and
18 1.10 ender "NetBSD Usr" for all the other partitions. You should select "NetBSD Swap"
19 1.10 ender for the swap partition.
20 1.8 ender
21 1.10 ender When you have finished converting each partition, select each partition and
22 1.10 ender click on the "Format" button. You will now be asked for a bunch of
23 1.8 ender parameters for the hard drive and the filesystem. Usually, you can just
24 1.10 ender take the defaults. If you are installing onto removable media (e.g. a Zip,
25 1.10 ender Jaz, or Syquest), please see the FAQ. Note that although this dialog only
26 1.10 ender has the "OK" button, you are not committed, yet. Once you get the values
27 1.10 ender you want, press the "OK" button. A dialog will be presented at this point
28 1.10 ender with two options: "Format" and "Cancel." If you choose "Cancel," nothing
29 1.10 ender will be written to your drive. If you choose "Format," the program will
30 1.10 ender proceed to make a filesystem.
31 1.10 ender
32 1.10 ender Mkfs is not a well-behaved Macintosh application. It will not allow any
33 1.10 ender other tasks to run while it does (cooperative multitasking at its best).
34 1.10 ender When it's finished, the program will put up a dialog to ask if you have
35 1.10 ender scanned the output for any error messages. Usually there won't have been
36 1.10 ender any errors, but do scan the output to make sure. Simply click on the "I
37 1.10 ender Read It" button and the program will quit.
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39 1.1 briggs Repeat as necessary for any extra partitions that you wish to make
40 1.1 briggs filesystems on. Note that you do _not_ need a filesystem on your swap
41 1.1 briggs partition.
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43 1.8 ender When you are finished, click on the "Done" button and choose "Quit" from
44 1.8 ender the "File" menu to exit Mkfs.
45 1.8 ender
46 1.1 briggs **** Installing the files
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48 1.8 ender Before using the Installer, it is probably a good idea to increase its
49 1.10 ender memory allocation. Select the Installer icon by clicking on it and choose
50 1.10 ender "Get Info" from the File menu. Increase both the Minimum and Preferred
51 1.10 ender sizes to as much as you can spare.
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53 1.10 ender Double-click on the Installer icon to start it up. The Installer will
54 1.10 ender present the same SCSI ID menu that Mkfs did. Select the same SCSI ID that
55 1.10 ender you did for Mkfs--i.e., the one you are installing onto.
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57 1.1 briggs If you are installing onto a single root partition, proceed to the
58 1.1 briggs "Installation of base files" section, below.
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60 1.1 briggs If you have not created filesystems for the root, usr, and
61 1.1 briggs any other filesystems, go back to "Preparing the filesystem(s),"
62 1.1 briggs above.
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64 1.8 ender When you started the Installer, it mounted your root partition.
65 1.1 briggs Just before it printed, "Mounting partition 'A' as /," it printed
66 1.1 briggs lines like:
67 1.1 briggs sd1 at scsi ID 5.
68 1.1 briggs This means that the device for scsi ID 5 is sd1. The partitions
69 1.1 briggs are signified by a trailing letter. For instance, sd1a would be
70 1.1 briggs the root partition of the second scsi disk in the chain, and sd0g
71 1.10 ender would be the first Usr partition on the first scsi disk.
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73 1.1 briggs You will need to know the proper device to mount the remaining
74 1.1 briggs partition(s) by hand:
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76 1.1 briggs * Select "Build Devices" from the "File" menu.
77 1.1 briggs
78 1.1 briggs * Select "Mini Shell" from the "File" menu.
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80 1.8 ender * You can use the 'disklabel' command to get a listing of
81 1.8 ender the available partitions and their types and sizes.
82 1.17 ender
83 1.17 ender * Create the directory mount point(s) with the command:
84 1.17 ender mkdir path
85 1.17 ender (e.g. for the /usr partition type: mkdir /usr)
86 1.8 ender
87 1.1 briggs * Mount the filesystems you wish with the command:
88 1.1 briggs mount device path
89 1.1 briggs For example, if you wish to mount a usr partition from
90 1.1 briggs the first scsi disk, sd0, on /usr, you would type:
91 1.1 briggs mount /dev/sd0g /usr
92 1.1 briggs
93 1.8 ender * Type "fstab force" to create a proper /etc/fstab file
94 1.8 ender
95 1.1 briggs * Type "quit" after you have mounted all the filesystems.
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97 1.1 briggs Installation of base files:
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99 1.1 briggs Select the "Install" menu item from the "File" menu and install
100 1.10 ender base.tgz, etc.tgz, netbsd.tgz, and any other sets you wish to
101 1.10 ender install at this time (see the contents section for information
102 1.10 ender about what's in each set). The Installer will print out the
103 1.10 ender filename of each file as it is installed, and will take quite some
104 1.10 ender time to install everything (the base package alone can take over an
105 1.10 ender hour on a slow hard drive).
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107 1.1 briggs As is the case with Mkfs, this is not a particularly well-behaved
108 1.1 briggs Macintosh application and the machine will be completely tied up
109 1.1 briggs while the installation takes place.
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111 1.10 ender At some point after installing the base set, select the "Build
112 1.10 ender Devices" option from the "File" menu if you have not already done
113 1.10 ender so. This will create a bunch of device nodes for you and will
114 1.10 ender create your initial /etc/fstab. The Installer program also has an
115 1.10 ender option to give you a mini-shell. Do not use this unless you are
116 1.10 ender sure know what you are doing.
117 1.8 ender
118 1.10 ender When you are finished installing all of the sets you wish to
119 1.8 ender install, exit the Installer by choosing "Quit" from the "File" menu.
120 1.8 ender
121 1.1 briggs **** Booting the system
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123 1.7 scottr Prior to attempting to boot NetBSD/mac68k, please verify that all of
124 1.7 scottr the following are true:
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126 1.7 scottr 1) 32-bit addressing is enabled[*] in the Memory control panel;
127 1.7 scottr
128 1.7 scottr 2) All forms of virtual memory are disabled (the Memory control
129 1.7 scottr panel, RAM Doubler, or other software-based memory enhancement
130 1.7 scottr products); and
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132 1.7 scottr 3) Your system is in B&W mode (1-bit color or grayscale) as shown
133 1.8 ender by the Monitors control panel. You may choose to have the
134 1.8 ender Booter do this for you automatically by selecting the appropriate
135 1.8 ender check box and radio button in the "Monitors" dialog on the
136 1.8 ender "Options" menu.
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138 1.10 ender It is probably best to boot your machine with all extensions turned
139 1.10 ender off[*]. You can do this by booting into MacOS with the SHIFT key held
140 1.10 ender down. You may have to restart your Macintosh for changes to take effect
141 1.10 ender before proceeding.
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143 1.8 ender [* NOTE: If you have an older II-class system (including the II, IIx, IIcx,
144 1.8 ender and SE/30), it is necessary to install Connectix's MODE32 to work around
145 1.7 scottr ROM issues which prevent you from enabling 32-bit addressing. Please see
146 1.8 ender <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/> for more information.]
147 1.7 scottr
148 1.5 scottr Double-click on the NetBSD/mac68k Booter icon to start the application.
149 1.8 ender Select "Booting" from the "Options" menu. Check that all of the items in
150 1.8 ender the resulting dialog look sane--especially the SCSI ID. If not, correct
151 1.8 ender them to your preference (the SCSI ID should be the only thing you need to
152 1.8 ender change). When you are satisfied with your choices, try booting NetBSD by
153 1.8 ender selecting "Boot Now" from the "Options" menu.
154 1.8 ender
155 1.8 ender If you wish to save your preferences, choose "Save Options" from the
156 1.10 ender "File" menu before Booting (your preferences will not be saved if you
157 1.10 ender forget to do this).
158 1.8 ender
159 1.18 scottr If the system does not come up, send mail to port-mac68k (a] netbsd.org
160 1.18 scottr describing your software, your hardware, and as complete a description of
161 1.18 scottr the problem as you can.
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163 1.8 ender If the system does come up, congratulations, you have successfully
164 1.19 hubertf installed NetBSD _VER.
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