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1 The installation can be broken down into three basic steps: 2 * Run Mkfs to build a filesystem or filesystems. 3 * Run the Installer to load the files onto your filesystems. 4 * Run the Booter to boot the system. 5 6 **** Preparing the filesystem(s) 7 8 Double-click on the Mkfs application icon to start it up. It will ask you 9 for the SCSI ID of the drive that you are installing upon. Once this is 10 selected, it will present a list of the partitions on that disk. You must 11 first convert the partitions to a type which NetBSD can understand. Select 12 each partition on which you wish to build a filesystem and click on the 13 "Change" button. If you are placing the entire installation on a single 14 partition, select the "NetBSD Root&Usr" radio button. If you are using 15 multiple partitions, select "NetBSD Root" for the root partition and 16 "NetBSD Usr" for all the other partitions. You should select "NetBSD Swap" 17 for the swap partition. 18 19 When you have finished converting each partition, select each partition and 20 click on the "Format" button. You will now be asked for a bunch of 21 parameters for the hard drive and the filesystem. Usually, you can just 22 take the defaults. If you are installing onto removable media (e.g. a Zip, 23 Jaz, or Syquest), please see the FAQ. Note that although this dialog only 24 has the "OK" button, you are not committed, yet. Once you get the values 25 you want, press the "OK" button. A dialog will be presented at this point 26 with two options: "Format" and "Cancel." If you choose "Cancel," nothing 27 will be written to your drive. If you choose "Format," the program will 28 proceed to make a filesystem. 29 30 Mkfs is not a well-behaved Macintosh application. It will not allow any 31 other tasks to run while it does (cooperative multitasking at its best). 32 When it's finished, the program will put up a dialog to ask if you have 33 scanned the output for any error messages. Usually there won't have been 34 any errors, but do scan the output to make sure. Simply click on the "I 35 Read It" button and the program will quit. 36 37 Repeat as necessary for any extra partitions that you wish to make 38 filesystems on. Note that you do _not_ need a filesystem on your swap 39 partition. 40 41 When you are finished, click on the "Done" button and choose "Quit" from 42 the "File" menu to exit Mkfs. 43 44 **** Installing the files 45 46 Before using the Installer, it is probably a good idea to increase its 47 memory allocation. Select the Installer icon by clicking on it and choose 48 "Get Info" from the File menu. Increase both the Minimum and Preferred 49 sizes to as much as you can spare. 50 51 Double-click on the Installer icon to start it up. The Installer will 52 present the same SCSI ID menu that Mkfs did. Select the same SCSI ID that 53 you did for Mkfs--i.e., the one you are installing onto. 54 55 If you are installing onto a single root partition, proceed to the 56 "Installation of base files" section, below. 57 58 If you have not created filesystems for the root, usr, and 59 any other filesystems, go back to "Preparing the filesystem(s)," 60 above. 61 62 When you started the Installer, it mounted your root partition. 63 Just before it printed, "Mounting partition 'A' as /," it printed 64 lines like: 65 sd1 at scsi ID 5. 66 This means that the device for scsi ID 5 is sd1. The partitions 67 are signified by a trailing letter. For instance, sd1a would be 68 the root partition of the second scsi disk in the chain, and sd0g 69 would be the first Usr partition on the first scsi disk. 70 71 You will need to know the proper device to mount the remaining 72 partition(s) by hand: 73 74 * Select "Build Devices" from the "File" menu. 75 76 * Select "Mini Shell" from the "File" menu. 77 78 * You can use the 'disklabel' command to get a listing of 79 the available partitions and their types and sizes. 80 81 * Mount the filesystems you wish with the command: 82 mount device path 83 For example, if you wish to mount a usr partition from 84 the first scsi disk, sd0, on /usr, you would type: 85 mount /dev/sd0g /usr 86 87 * Type "fstab force" to create a proper /etc/fstab file 88 89 * Type "quit" after you have mounted all the filesystems. 90 91 Installation of base files: 92 93 Select the "Install" menu item from the "File" menu and install 94 base.tgz, etc.tgz, netbsd.tgz, and any other sets you wish to 95 install at this time (see the contents section for information 96 about what's in each set). The Installer will print out the 97 filename of each file as it is installed, and will take quite some 98 time to install everything (the base package alone can take over an 99 hour on a slow hard drive). 100 101 As is the case with Mkfs, this is not a particularly well-behaved 102 Macintosh application and the machine will be completely tied up 103 while the installation takes place. 104 105 At some point after installing the base set, select the "Build 106 Devices" option from the "File" menu if you have not already done 107 so. This will create a bunch of device nodes for you and will 108 create your initial /etc/fstab. The Installer program also has an 109 option to give you a mini-shell. Do not use this unless you are 110 sure know what you are doing. 111 112 When you are finished installing all of the sets you wish to 113 install, exit the Installer by choosing "Quit" from the "File" menu. 114 115 **** Booting the system 116 117 Prior to attempting to boot NetBSD/mac68k, please verify that all of 118 the following are true: 119 120 1) 32-bit addressing is enabled[*] in the Memory control panel; 121 122 2) All forms of virtual memory are disabled (the Memory control 123 panel, RAM Doubler, or other software-based memory enhancement 124 products); and 125 126 3) Your system is in B&W mode (1-bit color or grayscale) as shown 127 by the Monitors control panel. You may choose to have the 128 Booter do this for you automatically by selecting the appropriate 129 check box and radio button in the "Monitors" dialog on the 130 "Options" menu. 131 132 It is probably best to boot your machine with all extensions turned 133 off[*]. You can do this by booting into MacOS with the SHIFT key held 134 down. You may have to restart your Macintosh for changes to take effect 135 before proceeding. 136 137 [* NOTE: If you have an older II-class system (including the II, IIx, IIcx, 138 and SE/30), it is necessary to install Connectix's MODE32 to work around 139 ROM issues which prevent you from enabling 32-bit addressing. Please see 140 <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/> for more information.] 141 142 Double-click on the NetBSD/mac68k Booter icon to start the application. 143 Select "Booting" from the "Options" menu. Check that all of the items in 144 the resulting dialog look sane--especially the SCSI ID. If not, correct 145 them to your preference (the SCSI ID should be the only thing you need to 146 change). When you are satisfied with your choices, try booting NetBSD by 147 selecting "Boot Now" from the "Options" menu. 148 149 If you wish to save your preferences, choose "Save Options" from the 150 "File" menu before Booting (your preferences will not be saved if you 151 forget to do this). 152 153 If the system does not come up, send mail to scottr (a] netbsd.org describing 154 your software, your hardware, and as complete a description of the 155 problem as you can. 156 157 If the system does come up, congratulations, you have successfully 158 installed NetBSD _VER. When you first boot into NetBSD, it will 159 automatically drop you into single-user mode with the root filesystem 160 mounted read-write. The system will ask you to choose a shell. Simply hit 161 return to get to a prompt. If you are asked for a terminal type, respond 162 with 'vt220' and hit return. At this point, you need to configure at least 163 one file in the /etc directory. Change to the /etc directory and take a 164 look at the /etc/rc.conf file. Modify it to your tastes, making sure that 165 you set "rc_configured=YES" so that your changes will be enabled and a 166 multi-user boot can proceed. If your /usr directory is on a separate 167 partition and you do not know how to use 'ed' or 'ex', you will have to 168 mount your /usr partition to gain access to 'vi'. Do the following: 169 170 mount /usr 171 export TERM=vt220 172 173 You can then edit /etc/rc.conf with 'vi'. When you have finished, type 174 'exit' at the prompt to leave the single-user shell and continue with the 175 multi-user boot. You should log in as "root" at the login prompt. There 176 is no initial password, but if you're using the machine in a networked 177 environment, you should create yourself an account and protect it and the 178 "root" account with good passwords. Please see the adduser(8) man page for 179 more information on how to add a new user. 180 181 Some of the files in the NetBSD _VER distribution might need to be 182 tailored for your site. In particular, the /etc/resolv.conf file will 183 almost definitely need to be adjusted, and other files in /etc will 184 probably need to be modified, as well. In particular, you will want to 185 take a look at /etc/rc.conf and modify it to your tastes. Make sure 186 that you set "rc_configured=YES" so that your changes will be enabled. 187 If you are unfamiliar with UN*X-like system administration, it's 188 recommended that you buy a book that discusses it. 189
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