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. Installation is supported from several media types, including:
p .(bullet -offset indent -compact FTP . t Remote NFS partition . .bullet)
p . The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for installation depend upon which installation medium you choose. The steps for the various media are outlined below. . .(tag CD-ROM / DVD . t Em FTP The preparations for this installation/upgrade method are easy; all you need to do is make sure that there's an FTP site from which you can retrieve the .Nx distribution when you're about to install or upgrade. If you don't have DHCP available on your network, you will need to know the numeric IP address of that site, and, if it's not on a network directly connected to the machine on which you're installing or upgrading .Nx , you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest to the .Nx machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric IP address of the .Nx machine itself. If you don't have access to a functioning nameserver during installation, the IPv4 address of .Sy ftp.NetBSD.org is .Li 199.233.217.201 (as of November, 2019).
p Once you have this information, you can proceed to the next step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're installing .Nx from scratch, go to the section on preparing your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing installation, go directly to the section on upgrading. . t Em NFS Place the .Nx distribution sets you wish to install into a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable by the machine on which you are installing or upgrading .Nx . This will probably require modifying the
a /etc/exports file on the NFS server and resetting its mount daemon (mountd). (Both of these actions will probably require superuser privileges on the server.)
p You need to know the numeric IP address of the NFS server, and, if you don't have DHCP available on your network and the server is not on a network directly connected to the machine on which you're installing or upgrading .Nx , you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest to the .Nx machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric IP address of the .Nx machine itself.
p Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the information mentioned above, you can proceed to the next step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're installing .Nx from scratch, go to the section on preparing your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing installation, go directly to the section on upgrading. .
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