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1 1.1.2.2 oki Installing NetBSD is a relatively complex process, but if you have 2 1.1.2.2 oki this document in hand and are careful to read and remember the 3 1.1.2.2 oki information which is presented to you by the install program, it 4 1.1.2.2 oki shouldn't be too much trouble. 5 1.1.2.2 oki 6 1.1.2.2 oki Before you begin, you should know the geometry of your hard disk, i.e. 7 1.1.2.2 oki the sector size (note that sector sizes other than 512 bytes are not 8 1.1.2.2 oki currently supported), the number of sectors per track, the number of 9 1.1.2.2 oki tracks per cylinder (also known as the number of heads), and the 10 1.1.2.2 oki number of cylinders on the disk. The NetBSD kernel will try to 11 1.1.2.2 oki discover these parameters on its own, and if it can it will print them 12 1.1.2.2 oki at boot time. If possible, you should use the parameters it prints. 13 1.1.2.2 oki (You might not be able to because you're sharing your disk with 14 1.1.2.2 oki another operating system, or because your disk is old enough that the 15 1.1.2.2 oki kernel can't figure out its geometry.) 16 1.1.2.2 oki 17 1.1.2.2 oki If NetBSD will be sharing the disk with Human68k or another operating 18 1.1.2.2 oki system, you should have already completed the section of these notes 19 1.1.2.2 oki that instructed you on how to prepare your hard disk. You should know 20 1.1.2.2 oki the size of the NetBSD area of the disk and its offset from the 21 1.1.2.2 oki beginning of the disk. You will need this information when setting up 22 1.1.2.2 oki your NetBSD partitions. 23 1.1.2.2 oki 24 1.1.2.2 oki You should now be ready to install NetBSD. It might be handy for you 25 1.1.2.2 oki to have a pencil, some paper, and a calculator handy. 26 1.1.2.2 oki 27 1.1.2.2 oki The following is a walk-through of the steps you will take while 28 1.1.2.2 oki getting NetBSD installed on your hard disk. If any question has a 29 1.1.2.2 oki default answer, it will be displayed in brackets ("[]") after the 30 1.1.2.2 oki question. If you wish to stop the installation, you may hit Control-C 31 1.1.2.2 oki at any time, but if you do, you'll have to begin the installation 32 1.1.2.2 oki process again from scratch. 33 1.1.2.2 oki 34 1.1.2.2 oki Boot your machine using of the appropriate kernel-copy floppy. 35 1.1.2.2 oki If the boot prompt does not appear in a reasonable amount of 36 1.1.2.2 oki time, you either have a bad boot floppy or a hardware problem. 37 1.1.2.2 oki Try writing the kernel-copy floppy image to a different disk, 38 1.1.2.2 oki and using that. If it still doesn't work, NetBSD probably 39 1.1.2.2 oki can't be run on your hardware. This can probably be 40 1.1.2.2 oki considered a bug, so you might want to report it. If you do, 41 1.1.2.2 oki please include as many details about your system configuration 42 1.1.2.2 oki as you can. 43 1.1.2.2 oki 44 1.1.2.2 oki It will take a while to load the kernel from the floppy, 45 1.1.2.2 oki probably around a minute or so. After its loaded, you will be 46 1.1.2.2 oki presented with the message: 47 1.1.2.2 oki "Insert file system floppy" 48 1.1.2.2 oki If you do not see that message after a reasonable time has 49 1.1.2.2 oki elapsed, or the spinning cursor has stopped and nothing 50 1.1.2.2 oki further has happened, either your boot floppy is bad or you 51 1.1.2.2 oki are having hardware problems, and should proceed as outlined 52 1.1.2.2 oki above. 53 1.1.2.2 oki 54 1.1.2.2 oki Once you have reached that prompt, remove the kernel-copy 55 1.1.2.2 oki floppy from the floppy drive. Make sure that the installation 56 1.1.2.3 mycroft disk (the "inst121" floppy) is writable, insert it into the 57 1.1.2.2 oki floppy drive, and hit any key. 58 1.1.2.2 oki 59 1.1.2.2 oki You will then be presented with the NetBSD kernel boot 60 1.1.2.2 oki messages. You will want to read them, to determine your 61 1.1.2.2 oki disk's name and geometry. Its name will be something like 62 1.1.2.2 oki "sd0" or "wd0" and the geometry will be printed on a line that 63 1.1.2.2 oki begins with its name. As mentioned above, you will need your 64 1.1.2.2 oki disk's geometry when creating NetBSD's partitions. You will 65 1.1.2.2 oki also need to know the name, to tell the install tools what 66 1.1.2.2 oki disk to install on. 67 1.1.2.2 oki 68 1.1.2.2 oki While booting, you will probably see several warnings. You 69 1.1.2.2 oki should be warned that no swap space is present, and that 70 1.1.2.2 oki init(8) cannot find /etc/rc. Do not be alarmed, these are 71 1.1.2.2 oki completely normal. When you reach the prompt asking you for a 72 1.1.2.2 oki shell name, just hit return. 73 1.1.2.2 oki 74 1.1.2.2 oki You will be presented with a welcome message and a prompt, 75 1.1.2.2 oki asking if you wish to proceed with the installation process. 76 1.1.2.2 oki If you wish to proceed, enter "y" and hit return. 77 1.1.2.2 oki 78 1.1.2.2 oki You will be asked what type of disk driver you have. The 79 1.1.2.2 oki valid options are listed by the install program, to make sure 80 1.1.2.2 oki you get it right. If you are SURE that it does, reply 81 1.1.2.2 oki affirmatively. Otherwise, the install program will 82 1.1.2.2 oki automatically reserve space for bad144 tables. 83 1.1.2.2 oki 84 1.1.2.2 oki The install program will then tell you which disks of that 85 1.1.2.2 oki type it can install on, and ask you which it should use. 86 1.1.2.2 oki Reply with the name of your disk. 87 1.1.2.2 oki 88 1.1.2.2 oki You will then be asked to name your disk's disklabel. The 89 1.1.2.2 oki default response is "mywd" or "mysd" depending on the type of 90 1.1.2.2 oki your disk, and for most purposes it will be OK. If you choose 91 1.1.2.2 oki to name it something different, make sure the name is a single 92 1.1.2.2 oki word and contains no special characters. You don't need to 93 1.1.2.2 oki remember this name. 94 1.1.2.2 oki 95 1.1.2.2 oki You will be prompted for your disk's geometry information, 96 1.1.2.2 oki i.e. the number of bytes per sector, cylinders on the disk, 97 1.1.2.2 oki tracks per cylinder (heads), and sectors per track. Enter 98 1.1.2.2 oki them when they are requested. If you make a mistake, hit 99 1.1.2.2 oki Control-C and when you get to the shell prompt, restart the 100 1.1.2.2 oki install process by running the "install" command. Once you 101 1.1.2.2 oki have entered this data, the install program will tell you the 102 1.1.2.2 oki total size of your disk, in both sectors, and cylinders. 103 1.1.2.2 oki Remember this number; if you're installing on the whole disk, 104 1.1.2.2 oki you'll need it again soon. 105 1.1.2.2 oki 106 1.1.2.2 oki When describing your partitions, you will have the option of 107 1.1.2.2 oki entering data about them in units of disk sectors or 108 1.1.2.2 oki cylinders. If you choose to enter the information in units of 109 1.1.2.2 oki sectors, remember that, for optimal performance, partitions 110 1.1.2.2 oki should begin and end on cylinder boundaries. You will be 111 1.1.2.2 oki asked about which units you wish to use, and you should reply 112 1.1.2.2 oki with "c" for cylinders, or "s" for sectors. 113 1.1.2.2 oki 114 1.1.2.2 oki You will be asked for the size of the NetBSD portion of the 115 1.1.2.2 oki disk. If you're installing on the whole disk, reply with the 116 1.1.2.2 oki size of the disk, as printed earlier by the install program. 117 1.1.2.2 oki If you're using only part of the disk, reply with the size 118 1.1.2.2 oki that you specified in the partition editor. (Don't forget to 119 1.1.2.2 oki enter the size in the units you specified in the last step!) 120 1.1.2.2 oki 121 1.1.2.2 oki If you are not installing on the whole disk, you will be asked 122 1.1.2.2 oki fro the offset of the NetBSD partition from the beginning of 123 1.1.2.2 oki the disk. Reply with the appropriate offset (again, in 124 1.1.2.2 oki whichever units you specified), as determined by how you 125 1.1.2.2 oki set up your disk using the partition editor. 126 1.1.2.2 oki 127 1.1.2.2 oki You will be asked to enter the size of your NetBSD root 128 1.1.2.2 oki partition. It should be at least 13M, but if you are going to 129 1.1.2.2 oki be doing development, 14-16M is a more desirable size. This 130 1.1.2.2 oki size should be expressed in units of sectors or cylinders, 131 1.1.2.2 oki depending on which you said you wanted to use. 132 1.1.2.2 oki 133 1.1.2.2 oki Next, you will be asked for the size of your swap partition. 134 1.1.2.2 oki You should probably allocate twice as much swap space as you 135 1.1.2.2 oki have real memory. Systems that will be heavily used should 136 1.1.2.2 oki have more swap space allocated, and systems that will be 137 1.1.2.2 oki lightly used can get by with less. If you want the system to 138 1.1.2.2 oki be able to save crash dumps when it panics, you will need at 139 1.1.2.2 oki least as much swap space as you have RAM. Again, this number 140 1.1.2.2 oki should be expressed in units of sectors or cylinders, as 141 1.1.2.2 oki appropriate. 142 1.1.2.2 oki 143 1.1.2.2 oki The install program will then ask you for information about 144 1.1.2.2 oki the rest of the partitions you want on your disk. For most 145 1.1.2.2 oki purposes, you will want only one more partition, "/usr". 146 1.1.2.2 oki (Machines used as servers will probably also want /var as a 147 1.1.2.2 oki separate partition. That can be done with these installation 148 1.1.2.2 oki tools, but is not covered here.) The install program will 149 1.1.2.2 oki tell you how much space there is left to be allocated in the 150 1.1.2.2 oki NetBSD area of the disk, and, if you only want one more 151 1.1.2.2 oki partition ("/usr"), you should enter it at the prompt when the 152 1.1.2.2 oki installer asks you how large the next partition should be. 153 1.1.2.2 oki It will then ask you for the name of the mount point for that 154 1.1.2.2 oki partition. If you're doing a basic installation, that is 155 1.1.2.2 oki "/usr". 156 1.1.2.2 oki 157 1.1.2.2 oki YOU ARE NOW AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN. Nothing has been 158 1.1.2.2 oki written to your disk yet, but if you confirm that you want to 159 1.1.2.2 oki install NetBSD, your hard drive will be modified, and its 160 1.1.2.2 oki contents may be scrambled at the whim of the install program. 161 1.1.2.2 oki This is especially likely if you have given the install 162 1.1.2.2 oki program incorrect information. If you are sure you want to 163 1.1.2.2 oki proceed, enter "yes" at the prompt. 164 1.1.2.2 oki 165 1.1.2.2 oki The install program will now label your disk and make the file 166 1.1.2.2 oki systems you specified. The filesystems will be initialized to 167 1.1.2.2 oki contain NetBSD bootstrapping binaries and configuration files. 168 1.1.2.2 oki It will also create an /etc/fstab for your system, and mount 169 1.1.2.2 oki all of the file systems under /mnt. (In other words, your root 170 1.1.2.2 oki partition will be mounted on /mnt, your /usr partition on 171 1.1.2.2 oki /mnt/usr, and so on.) There should be no errors in this 172 1.1.2.2 oki section of the installation. If there are, restart from the 173 1.1.2.2 oki beginning of the installation process. 174 1.1.2.2 oki 175 1.1.2.2 oki You will be placed at a shell prompt ("#"). The remaining 176 1.1.2.2 oki tasks are to copy the kernel from the kernel copy floppy to 177 1.1.2.2 oki the hard drive's root filesystem and install the distribution 178 1.1.2.2 oki sets. The flow of installation differs depending on your 179 1.1.2.2 oki hardware resources, and on what media the distribution sets 180 1.1.2.2 oki reside. 181 1.1.2.2 oki 182 1.1.2.2 oki To install from floppy: 183 1.1.2.2 oki If you only have only one floppy drive, the order of 184 1.1.2.2 oki installation is different. Follow the directions in 185 1.1.2.2 oki the "Kernel installation" section which will help you 186 1.1.2.2 oki install a kernel on the hard drive and then boot off 187 1.1.2.2 oki the hard drive, then continue with the rest of the 188 1.1.2.2 oki process described here to install the distribution 189 1.1.2.2 oki sets from floppy: 190 1.1.2.2 oki 191 1.1.2.2 oki The first thing you should do is pick a temporary 192 1.1.2.2 oki directory where the distribution files can be stored. 193 1.1.2.2 oki To do this, enter the command "Set_tmp_dir", and enter 194 1.1.2.2 oki the name of the temporary directory. (Don't forget 195 1.1.2.2 oki that if your disk is still mounted under /mnt; you 196 1.1.2.2 oki should probably pick a directory under /mnt/usr.) 197 1.1.2.2 oki 198 1.1.2.2 oki After you have picked a temporary directory, enter the 199 1.1.2.2 oki "Load_fd" command, to load the distribution sets from 200 1.1.2.2 oki your floppies. 201 1.1.2.2 oki 202 1.1.2.2 oki You will be asked which floppy drive to use. Enter 203 1.1.2.2 oki "0" (zero) if you're using the first floppy drive 204 1.1.2.2 oki (i.e. what DOS would call "A:"), or enter "1" if 205 1.1.2.2 oki you're using the second. (Remember that you CANNOT 206 1.1.2.2 oki use the floppy drive that you booted from. If you 207 1.1.2.2 oki booted from "A:", you must load from "B:".) 208 1.1.2.2 oki 209 1.1.2.2 oki You will be prompted to insert a floppy into the drive, 210 1.1.2.2 oki to have its contents copied to your hard disk. Do so, 211 1.1.2.2 oki and hit return to begin copying. When that is done, 212 1.1.2.2 oki read the remainder of the floppies that contain the 213 1.1.2.2 oki distribution sets that you want to install, one by 214 1.1.2.2 oki one. When the last is read, and you are being 215 1.1.2.2 oki prompted for another, hit Control-C. 216 1.1.2.2 oki 217 1.1.2.2 oki Run the "Extract" command once for each distribution 218 1.1.2.2 oki set you wish to install. For instance, if you wish to 219 1.1.2.3 mycroft install the "base121" distribution set, followed by the 220 1.1.2.3 mycroft "man121" distribution set, and finally the "etc121" 221 1.1.2.2 oki distribution set, use the commands: 222 1.1.2.3 mycroft Extract base121 223 1.1.2.3 mycroft Extract man121 224 1.1.2.3 mycroft Extract etc121 225 1.1.2.2 oki 226 1.1.2.2 oki For each extraction, it will ask you if the extraction 227 1.1.2.2 oki should be verbose. If you reply affirmatively, it 228 1.1.2.2 oki will print out the name of each file that's being 229 1.1.2.2 oki extracted. 230 1.1.2.2 oki 231 1.1.2.2 oki (Note: if you know that you will be running low on 232 1.1.2.2 oki disk space when installing NetBSD, you can load and 233 1.1.2.2 oki extract one distribution set at a time. To do this, 234 1.1.2.2 oki load only the floppies which contain the files for the 235 1.1.2.2 oki first distribution set, extract them, and then change 236 1.1.2.2 oki to the temporary directory and remove them with the 237 1.1.2.2 oki command "rm set_name.??".) 238 1.1.2.2 oki 239 1.1.2.2 oki Once you are finished extracting all of the sets that 240 1.1.2.2 oki you wish to install, you should proceed to the 241 1.1.2.2 oki instructions below (after the last install medium 242 1.1.2.2 oki type-specific instructions), that explain how you 243 1.1.2.2 oki should configure your system. 244 1.1.2.2 oki 245 1.1.2.2 oki To install from tape: 246 1.1.2.2 oki The first thing you should do is pick a temporary 247 1.1.2.2 oki directory where the distribution files can be stored. 248 1.1.2.2 oki To do this, enter the command "Set_tmp_dir", and enter 249 1.1.2.2 oki the name of the temporary directory. (Don't forget 250 1.1.2.2 oki that your disk is mounted under /mnt; you should 251 1.1.2.2 oki probably pick a directory under /mnt/usr.) The 252 1.1.2.2 oki default is /mnt/usr/distrib. 253 1.1.2.2 oki 254 1.1.2.2 oki After you have picked a temporary directory, enter the 255 1.1.2.2 oki "Load_tape" command, to load the distribution sets from 256 1.1.2.2 oki tape. 257 1.1.2.2 oki 258 1.1.2.2 oki You will be asked which tape drive to use. The 259 1.1.2.2 oki default is "rst0", which is correct if you're using 260 1.1.2.2 oki the SCSI tape drive with the lowest SCSI ID number. 261 1.1.2.2 oki (For the SCSI tape drive with the next lowest SCSI ID 262 1.1.2.2 oki number, you should use "rst1", and so on.) 263 1.1.2.2 oki 264 1.1.2.2 oki You will be prompted to hit return when you have 265 1.1.2.2 oki inserted the tape into the tape drive. When you do, 266 1.1.2.2 oki the contents of the tape will be extracted into the 267 1.1.2.2 oki temporary directory, and the names of the files being 268 1.1.2.2 oki extracted will be printed. 269 1.1.2.2 oki 270 1.1.2.2 oki After the tape has been extracted, to go the directory 271 1.1.2.2 oki containing the first distribution set you wish to 272 1.1.2.2 oki install. (Depending on how you made the tape, it's 273 1.1.2.2 oki probably a subdirectory of the temporary directory you 274 1.1.2.2 oki specified above.) Once there, run the "Set_tmp_dir" 275 1.1.2.2 oki command again, and accept its default answer by 276 1.1.2.2 oki hitting return at the prompt. 277 1.1.2.2 oki 278 1.1.2.2 oki Use the "Extract" command to extract the distribution 279 1.1.2.3 mycroft set. For instance, if you're extracting the "base121" 280 1.1.2.2 oki set, use the command: 281 1.1.2.3 mycroft Extract base121 282 1.1.2.2 oki You will be asked if you wish the extraction to be 283 1.1.2.2 oki verbose. If you reply affirmatively, the name of each 284 1.1.2.2 oki file being extracted will be printed. 285 1.1.2.2 oki 286 1.1.2.2 oki Repeat the previous two steps for each distribution 287 1.1.2.2 oki set you wish to install. Change to the set's 288 1.1.2.2 oki directory, run "Set_tmp_dir", and then run 289 1.1.2.2 oki "Extract <set_name>" to extract the set. 290 1.1.2.2 oki 291 1.1.2.2 oki Once you are finished extracting all of the sets that 292 1.1.2.2 oki you wish to install, you should proceed to the 293 1.1.2.2 oki instructions below (after the last install medium 294 1.1.2.2 oki type-specific instructions), that explain how you 295 1.1.2.2 oki should configure your system. 296 1.1.2.2 oki 297 1.1.2.2 oki To install via FTP or NFS: 298 1.1.2.2 oki The first thing you should do is pick a temporary 299 1.1.2.2 oki directory where the distribution files can be stored. 300 1.1.2.2 oki To do this, enter the command "Set_tmp_dir", and enter 301 1.1.2.2 oki the name of the temporary directory. (Don't forget 302 1.1.2.2 oki that your disk is mounted under /mnt; you should 303 1.1.2.2 oki probably pick a directory under /mnt/usr.) The 304 1.1.2.2 oki default is /mnt/usr/distrib. 305 1.1.2.2 oki 306 1.1.2.2 oki Configure the SLIP interface, with the following 307 1.1.2.2 oki command sequence: 308 1.1.2.2 oki 309 1.1.2.2 oki slattach -h -s <speed> tty00 310 1.1.2.2 oki ifconfig sl0 <my_ipaddr> <peer_ipaddr> 311 1.1.2.2 oki 312 1.1.2.2 oki where "<speed>" is the network speed, and "<my_ipaddr>" 313 1.1.2.2 oki is the numeric IP address of the machine you are going 314 1.1.2.2 oki to install NetBSD/x68k, while "<peer_ipaddr>" is the 315 1.1.2.2 oki address of the peer machine connected with your machine. 316 1.1.2.2 oki You might have to configure the peer SLIP interface 317 1.1.2.2 oki with similar sequence (depending on the peer system). 318 1.1.2.2 oki 319 1.1.2.2 oki For instance, the sequence 320 1.1.2.2 oki 321 1.1.2.2 oki slattach -h -s 38400 tty00 322 1.1.2.2 oki ifconfig sl0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.10 323 1.1.2.2 oki 324 1.1.2.2 oki configures the SLIP interface for the network between 325 1.1.2.2 oki your machine (with IP address 192.168.0.1) and the peer 326 1.1.2.2 oki (192.168.0.10) with speed 38400 bps. Note that IP 327 1.1.2.2 oki addresses 192.168.*.* are the private IP addresses 328 1.1.2.2 oki described in RFC 1597. 329 1.1.2.2 oki 330 1.1.2.2 oki If you are NFS-mounting the distribution sets, mount 331 1.1.2.2 oki them on the temporary directory with a command like: 332 1.1.2.2 oki 333 1.1.2.2 oki mount -t nfs <serv_ipaddr>:<dist_dir> <tmp_dir> 334 1.1.2.2 oki 335 1.1.2.2 oki where <serv_ipaddr> is the server's numeric IP address, 336 1.1.2.2 oki <dist_dir> is the path to the distribution files on 337 1.1.2.2 oki the server, and <tmp_dir> is the name of the local 338 1.1.2.2 oki temporary directory. 339 1.1.2.2 oki 340 1.1.2.2 oki Once this is done, proceed as if you had loaded the 341 1.1.2.2 oki files from tape, changing to the appropriate 342 1.1.2.2 oki directories, running "Set_tmp_dir", and running 343 1.1.2.2 oki "Extract" as appropriate. 344 1.1.2.2 oki 345 1.1.2.2 oki If you are retrieving the distribution sets using ftp, 346 1.1.2.2 oki change into the temporary directory, and execute the 347 1.1.2.2 oki command: 348 1.1.2.2 oki 349 1.1.2.2 oki ftp <serv_ipaddr> 350 1.1.2.2 oki 351 1.1.2.2 oki where <serv_ipaddr> is once again the server's numeric 352 1.1.2.2 oki IP address. Get the files with FTP, taking care to 353 1.1.2.2 oki use binary mode when transferring the files. 354 1.1.2.2 oki 355 1.1.2.2 oki Once you have all of the files for the distribution 356 1.1.2.2 oki sets that you wish to install, you can proceed using 357 1.1.2.2 oki the instructions above, as if you had installed from a 358 1.1.2.2 oki floppy. (Note that as with the floppy install, if 359 1.1.2.2 oki you're short on disk space, you can transfer only one 360 1.1.2.2 oki set at a time, extract it, then delete it, to save 361 1.1.2.2 oki space.) 362 1.1.2.2 oki 363 1.1.2.2 oki Once you have finished extracting all of the distribution sets 364 1.1.2.2 oki that you wish to install, and are back at the "#" prompt, you 365 1.1.2.2 oki are ready to configure your system. The configuration utility 366 1.1.2.3 mycroft expects that you have installed the "base121" and "etc121" 367 1.1.2.2 oki distribution sets. If you have not, you will not be able to 368 1.1.2.2 oki run it successfully (nor will you have a functional system, in 369 1.1.2.2 oki any case). To configure your newly-installed NetBSD system, 370 1.1.2.2 oki run the command "Configure". It will ask you for the system's 371 1.1.2.2 oki host name, domain name, and other network configuration 372 1.1.2.2 oki information. It will set up your configuration files and make 373 1.1.2.2 oki the device nodes for the newly-installed system. 374 1.1.2.2 oki 375 1.1.2.2 oki Kernel Installation: 376 1.1.2.2 oki 377 1.1.2.2 oki Enter "halt" at the prompt to halt the system. When the 378 1.1.2.3 mycroft system is halted, remove the "inst121" floppy from the floppy 379 1.1.2.3 mycroft drive, and replace it with the NetBSD 1.2.1 kernel-copy floppy 380 1.1.2.2 oki that you previously booted from. Reboot with that floppy. 381 1.1.2.2 oki with that floppy. 382 1.1.2.2 oki 383 1.1.2.2 oki Once again, you will be prompted to insert a file system 384 1.1.2.2 oki floppy. DO NOT replace the kernel-copy floppy, just hit any 385 1.1.2.2 oki key. 386 1.1.2.2 oki 387 1.1.2.2 oki Again, While booting, you may see several warnings. You may 388 1.1.2.2 oki be warned that no swap space is present, that init(8) cannot 389 1.1.2.2 oki find /etc/rc, and that one or more databases with names like 390 1.1.2.2 oki "pwd.db" cannot be found. Do not be alarmed, as, again, these 391 1.1.2.2 oki are completely normal. Hit return at the prompt asking you 392 1.1.2.2 oki for a shell name. 393 1.1.2.2 oki 394 1.1.2.2 oki You will be presented with a shell prompt, at which you should 395 1.1.2.2 oki enter the "copy_kernel" command. It will ask you what 396 1.1.2.2 oki partition to copy the kernel to, and you should reply with the 397 1.1.2.2 oki name of your root partition (e.g. sd0a or wd0a). 398 1.1.2.2 oki 399 1.1.2.2 oki You will be asked if you are sure that you want to copy the 400 1.1.2.2 oki kernel. Reply affirmatively, and it will check the file 401 1.1.2.2 oki system on your root partition, mount it, and copy the kernel. 402 1.1.2.2 oki Once the kernel is copied, you should use "halt" to halt the 403 1.1.2.2 oki system. 404 1.1.2.2 oki 405 1.1.2.2 oki Once the system is halted, remove the kernel-copy floppy from 406 1.1.2.2 oki the floppy disk drive, and hit any key to reboot. 407 1.1.2.2 oki 408 1.1.2.3 mycroft Congratulations, you have successfully installed NetBSD 1.2.1. When you 409 1.1.2.2 oki reboot into NetBSD, you should log in as "root" at the login prompt. 410 1.1.2.2 oki There is no initial password, but if you're using the machine in a 411 1.1.2.2 oki networked environment, you should create yourself an account and 412 1.1.2.2 oki protect it and the "root" account with good passwords. 413 1.1.2.2 oki 414 1.1.2.3 mycroft Some of the files in the NetBSD 1.2.1 distribution might need to be 415 1.1.2.2 oki tailored for your site. In particular, the /etc/sendmail.cf file will 416 1.1.2.2 oki almost definitely need to be adjusted, and other files in /etc will 417 1.1.2.2 oki probably need to be modified, as well. If you are unfamiliar with 418 1.1.2.2 oki UN*X-like system administration, it's recommended that you buy a book 419 1.1.2.2 oki that discusses it. 420
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