install revision 1.16
1 $NetBSD: install,v 1.16 1998/01/09 18:46:40 perry Exp $ 2 3 The installation can be broken down into three basic steps: 4 * Run Mkfs to build a filesystem or filesystems. 5 * Run the Installer to load the files onto your filesystems. 6 * Run the Booter to boot the system. 7 8 **** Preparing the filesystem(s) 9 10 Double-click on the Mkfs application icon to start it up. It will ask you 11 for the SCSI ID of the drive that you are installing upon. Once this is 12 selected, it will present a list of the partitions on that disk. You must 13 first convert the partitions to a type which NetBSD can understand. Select 14 each partition on which you wish to build a filesystem and click on the 15 "Change" button. If you are placing the entire installation on a single 16 partition, select the "NetBSD Root&Usr" radio button. If you are using 17 multiple partitions, select "NetBSD Root" for the root partition and 18 "NetBSD Usr" for all the other partitions. You should select "NetBSD Swap" 19 for the swap partition. 20 21 When you have finished converting each partition, select each partition and 22 click on the "Format" button. You will now be asked for a bunch of 23 parameters for the hard drive and the filesystem. Usually, you can just 24 take the defaults. If you are installing onto removable media (e.g. a Zip, 25 Jaz, or Syquest), please see the FAQ. Note that although this dialog only 26 has the "OK" button, you are not committed, yet. Once you get the values 27 you want, press the "OK" button. A dialog will be presented at this point 28 with two options: "Format" and "Cancel." If you choose "Cancel," nothing 29 will be written to your drive. If you choose "Format," the program will 30 proceed to make a filesystem. 31 32 Mkfs is not a well-behaved Macintosh application. It will not allow any 33 other tasks to run while it does (cooperative multitasking at its best). 34 When it's finished, the program will put up a dialog to ask if you have 35 scanned the output for any error messages. Usually there won't have been 36 any errors, but do scan the output to make sure. Simply click on the "I 37 Read It" button and the program will quit. 38 39 Repeat as necessary for any extra partitions that you wish to make 40 filesystems on. Note that you do _not_ need a filesystem on your swap 41 partition. 42 43 When you are finished, click on the "Done" button and choose "Quit" from 44 the "File" menu to exit Mkfs. 45 46 **** Installing the files 47 48 Before using the Installer, it is probably a good idea to increase its 49 memory allocation. Select the Installer icon by clicking on it and choose 50 "Get Info" from the File menu. Increase both the Minimum and Preferred 51 sizes to as much as you can spare. 52 53 Double-click on the Installer icon to start it up. The Installer will 54 present the same SCSI ID menu that Mkfs did. Select the same SCSI ID that 55 you did for Mkfs--i.e., the one you are installing onto. 56 57 If you are installing onto a single root partition, proceed to the 58 "Installation of base files" section, below. 59 60 If you have not created filesystems for the root, usr, and 61 any other filesystems, go back to "Preparing the filesystem(s)," 62 above. 63 64 When you started the Installer, it mounted your root partition. 65 Just before it printed, "Mounting partition 'A' as /," it printed 66 lines like: 67 sd1 at scsi ID 5. 68 This means that the device for scsi ID 5 is sd1. The partitions 69 are signified by a trailing letter. For instance, sd1a would be 70 the root partition of the second scsi disk in the chain, and sd0g 71 would be the first Usr partition on the first scsi disk. 72 73 You will need to know the proper device to mount the remaining 74 partition(s) by hand: 75 76 * Select "Build Devices" from the "File" menu. 77 78 * Select "Mini Shell" from the "File" menu. 79 80 * You can use the 'disklabel' command to get a listing of 81 the available partitions and their types and sizes. 82 83 * Mount the filesystems you wish with the command: 84 mount device path 85 For example, if you wish to mount a usr partition from 86 the first scsi disk, sd0, on /usr, you would type: 87 mount /dev/sd0g /usr 88 89 * Type "fstab force" to create a proper /etc/fstab file 90 91 * Type "quit" after you have mounted all the filesystems. 92 93 Installation of base files: 94 95 Select the "Install" menu item from the "File" menu and install 96 base.tgz, etc.tgz, netbsd.tgz, and any other sets you wish to 97 install at this time (see the contents section for information 98 about what's in each set). The Installer will print out the 99 filename of each file as it is installed, and will take quite some 100 time to install everything (the base package alone can take over an 101 hour on a slow hard drive). 102 103 As is the case with Mkfs, this is not a particularly well-behaved 104 Macintosh application and the machine will be completely tied up 105 while the installation takes place. 106 107 At some point after installing the base set, select the "Build 108 Devices" option from the "File" menu if you have not already done 109 so. This will create a bunch of device nodes for you and will 110 create your initial /etc/fstab. The Installer program also has an 111 option to give you a mini-shell. Do not use this unless you are 112 sure know what you are doing. 113 114 When you are finished installing all of the sets you wish to 115 install, exit the Installer by choosing "Quit" from the "File" menu. 116 117 **** Booting the system 118 119 Prior to attempting to boot NetBSD/mac68k, please verify that all of 120 the following are true: 121 122 1) 32-bit addressing is enabled[*] in the Memory control panel; 123 124 2) All forms of virtual memory are disabled (the Memory control 125 panel, RAM Doubler, or other software-based memory enhancement 126 products); and 127 128 3) Your system is in B&W mode (1-bit color or grayscale) as shown 129 by the Monitors control panel. You may choose to have the 130 Booter do this for you automatically by selecting the appropriate 131 check box and radio button in the "Monitors" dialog on the 132 "Options" menu. 133 134 It is probably best to boot your machine with all extensions turned 135 off[*]. You can do this by booting into MacOS with the SHIFT key held 136 down. You may have to restart your Macintosh for changes to take effect 137 before proceeding. 138 139 [* NOTE: If you have an older II-class system (including the II, IIx, IIcx, 140 and SE/30), it is necessary to install Connectix's MODE32 to work around 141 ROM issues which prevent you from enabling 32-bit addressing. Please see 142 <http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/> for more information.] 143 144 Double-click on the NetBSD/mac68k Booter icon to start the application. 145 Select "Booting" from the "Options" menu. Check that all of the items in 146 the resulting dialog look sane--especially the SCSI ID. If not, correct 147 them to your preference (the SCSI ID should be the only thing you need to 148 change). When you are satisfied with your choices, try booting NetBSD by 149 selecting "Boot Now" from the "Options" menu. 150 151 If you wish to save your preferences, choose "Save Options" from the 152 "File" menu before Booting (your preferences will not be saved if you 153 forget to do this). 154 155 If the system does not come up, send mail to scottr (a] netbsd.org describing 156 your software, your hardware, and as complete a description of the 157 problem as you can. 158 159 If the system does come up, congratulations, you have successfully 160 installed NetBSD _VER. When you first boot into NetBSD, it will 161 automatically drop you into single-user mode with the root filesystem 162 mounted read-write. The system will ask you to choose a shell. Simply hit 163 return to get to a prompt. If you are asked for a terminal type, respond 164 with 'vt220' and hit return. At this point, you need to configure at least 165 one file in the /etc directory. Change to the /etc directory and take a 166 look at the /etc/rc.conf file. Modify it to your tastes, making sure that 167 you set "rc_configured=YES" so that your changes will be enabled and a 168 multi-user boot can proceed. If your /usr directory is on a separate 169 partition and you do not know how to use 'ed' or 'ex', you will have to 170 mount your /usr partition to gain access to 'vi'. Do the following: 171 172 mount /usr 173 export TERM=vt220 174 175 You can then edit /etc/rc.conf with 'vi'. When you have finished, type 176 'exit' at the prompt to leave the single-user shell and continue with the 177 multi-user boot. You should log in as "root" at the login prompt. There 178 is no initial password, but if you're using the machine in a networked 179 environment, you should create yourself an account and protect it and the 180 "root" account with good passwords. Please see the adduser(8) man page for 181 more information on how to add a new user. 182 183 Some of the files in the NetBSD _VER distribution might need to be 184 tailored for your site. In particular, if you have installed the X11 185 distribution sets, you will need to edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file to 186 look something like: 187 188 # add the X shared libraries to the runtime linker search path 189 /usr/X11R6/lib 190 191 Also, don't forget to add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path in your shell's dot 192 file so that you have access to the X binaries. Many other files in /etc 193 will probably need to be modified, as well. Most of these files are 194 described in section 5 of the manual pages. If you are unfamiliar with 195 UN*X-like operating systems or system administration, it's recommended that 196 you buy a book that discusses it. 197
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