. Installation is currently only supported from the local Macintosh hard drive, from a CD-ROM, or from an AppleShare volume (however, you may upgrade a system from within .Nx ; see the section on upgrading for more details). If you are installing from a local hard drive, this means that you'll need at least enough room for the largest file that you will have to install. This is the 10.2M base.tgz file. There has been talk of allowing an install from split files. If you have the time, desire, and knowledge, please feel free to add that functionality.
p If the install is being done from an AppleShare-mounted volume, the install utility must be in the same folder as the binary distribution sets.
p Each distribution file is in .Em raw No archive format. l -bullet t Distribution files must be downloaded in binary mode. Common web browsers may not be suitable for this task; FTP clients such as Fetch and Anarchie work fine, but be sure to specify a binary file transfer. t The files should not be unpacked. If you have the Internet Config extension installed, you can disable this in the "Helpers" dialog by removing the entry associated with ".tgz" files. Other FTP clients may require separate changes; consult your package's documentation. t If you are installing from a CD-ROM, the distribution sets are already in the proper format and no special handling is required. .El
p You will also need to collect the MacOS installation tools from the
a mac68k/installation/misc No subdirectory of the .Nx \*V distribution: Mkfs, NetBSD/Mac68k Installer, and NetBSD/Mac68k Booter. These three are in binhexed, self-extracting archives as Mkfs.sea.hqx, Installer.sea.hqx, and Booter.sea.hqx, respectively. Extract them as you would any other Macintosh application.
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