xfer revision 1.5
1 $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.5 1998/01/09 18:47:29 perry Exp $ 2 3Installation is supported from several media types, including: 4 NFS partitions 5 FTP 6 Tape 7 8The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 9for installation depend on which method of installation 10you choose. The various methods are explained below. 11 12To prepare for installing via an NFS partition: 13 14 Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into 15 a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory 16 mountable by the machine which you will be installing 17 NetBSD on. This will probably require modifying the 18 /etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting 19 mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges. 20 Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of 21 the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine, 22 if the NFS server is not on a network which is 23 directly attached to the NetBSD machine. 24 25 If you are using a diskless setup to install NetBSD on 26 your machine, you can take advantage of the fact that 27 the above has already been done on your machine's server. 28 So, you can conveniently put the NetBSD filesets in your 29 machine's root filesystem on the server where the install 30 program can find them. 31 32 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 33 step in the installation process, preparing your 34 system for NetBSD installation. 35 36 37To prepare for installing via FTP: 38 39 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 40 only for those already familiar with using 41 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 42 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 43 should help, but is not intended to be 44 all-encompassing. 45 46 The preparations for this method of installation 47 are easy: all you have to do is make sure that 48 there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve 49 the NetBSD installation when it's time to do 50 the install. You should know the numeric IP 51 address of that site, the numeric IP address of 52 your nearest router if one is necessary 53 54 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 55 step in the installation process, preparing your 56 system for NetBSD installation. 57 58 59To prepare for installing via a tape: 60 61 To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow 62 get the NetBSD filesets you wish to install on 63 your system on to the appropriate kind of tape, 64 in tar format. 65 66 If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest 67 way to do so is: 68 69 tar cvf <tape_device> <files> 70 71 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device 72 that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly 73 something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-). 74 Under SunOS 5.x, this would be something like /dev/rmt/0mbn. 75 Again, your mileage may vary. If you can't figure it out, 76 ask your system administrator. "<files>" are the names 77 of the "set_name.nnn" files which you want to be placed 78 on the tape. 79 80 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 81 step in the installation process, preparing your 82 system for NetBSD installation. 83