xfer revision 1.1.2.2
1 1.1.2.2 mycroft Installation is supported from several media types, including: 2 1.1.2.2 mycroft 3 1.1.2.2 mycroft Magneto-Optical disk (MO) 4 1.1.2.2 mycroft Tape 5 1.1.2.2 mycroft Remote NFS partition 6 1.1.2.2 mycroft FTP 7 1.1.2.2 mycroft 8 1.1.2.2 mycroft No matter which installation medium you choose, you'll need to have 9 1.1.2.2 mycroft a floppy disk. On the first, you'll put the install or upgrade floppy 10 1.1.2.2 mycroft image, depending on whether you're installing NetBSD for the first time, 11 1.1.2.2 mycroft or upgrading a previous installation. 12 1.1.2.2 mycroft 13 1.1.2.2 mycroft If you are using a UN*X-like system to write the floppy images to 14 1.1.2.2 mycroft disks, you should use the "dd" command to copy the file system images 15 1.1.2.2 mycroft (.fs files) directly to the raw floppy disks. It is suggested that 16 1.1.2.2 mycroft you read the dd(1) manual page or ask your system administrator to 17 1.1.2.2 mycroft determine the correct set of arguments to use; it will be slightly 18 1.1.2.2 mycroft different from system to system, and a comprehensive list of the 19 1.1.2.2 mycroft possibilities is beyond the scope of this document. 20 1.1.2.2 mycroft 21 1.1.2.2 mycroft If you are using Human68k to write the floppy images to disks, you should 22 1.1.2.2 mycroft use the "rawrite" utility, provided in the "x68k/utils" directory 23 1.1.2.2 mycroft of the NetBSD distribution. It will write the file system images (.fs 24 1.1.2.2 mycroft files) to disks. 25 1.1.2.2 mycroft 26 1.1.2.2 mycroft Note that, when installing, the install floppy MUST not be write-protected. 27 1.1.2.2 mycroft The install program needs to write some temporary files, and if the 28 1.1.2.2 mycroft disk is write-protected, it can't. If you're upgrading your system, 29 1.1.2.2 mycroft the upgrade floppy may be write-protected. 30 1.1.2.2 mycroft 31 1.1.2.2 mycroft Obviously, the steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for 32 1.1.2.2 mycroft installation or upgrade depend on which installation medium you 33 1.1.2.2 mycroft choose. The steps for the various media are outlined below. 34 1.1.2.2 mycroft 35 1.1.2.2 mycroft To install or upgrade NetBSD using MO, the MO media MUST be of the 36 1.1.2.2 mycroft IBM `Super-floppy' format. The Human68k format is not recognized by this 37 1.1.2.2 mycroft release of the NetBSD/x68k. If you have a MS-DOS (or MS-Windows) machine 38 1.1.2.2 mycroft with an MO drive connected, use it. If you don't, and if you have 39 1.1.2.2 mycroft a program to handle IBM format MO for Human68k, copy all the files in 40 1.1.2.2 mycroft the subdirectory "x68k/binaries" and RENAME THEIR NAME IN UPPER CASE. 41 1.1.2.2 mycroft 42 1.1.2.2 mycroft To install or upgrade NetBSD using a tape, you need to do the 43 1.1.2.2 mycroft following: 44 1.1.2.2 mycroft 45 1.1.2.2 mycroft To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to make a tape that 46 1.1.2.2 mycroft contains the distribution set files, in "tar" format. If 47 1.1.2.2 mycroft you're making the tape on a UN*X-like system, the easiest way 48 1.1.2.2 mycroft to do so is probably something like: 49 1.1.2.2 mycroft 50 1.1.2.2 mycroft tar cf <tape_device> <dist_directories> 51 1.1.2.2 mycroft 52 1.1.2.2 mycroft where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device that 53 1.1.2.2 mycroft describes the tape drive you're using (possibly /dev/rst0, or 54 1.1.2.2 mycroft something similar, but it will vary from system to system. 55 1.1.2.2 mycroft (If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.) 56 1.1.2.2 mycroft In the above example, "<dist_directories>" are the 57 1.1.2.2 mycroft distribution sets' directories, for the distribution sets you 58 1.1.2.2 mycroft wish to place on the tape. For instance, to put the "base121" 59 1.1.2.2 mycroft and "etc121" distributions on tape (in order to do the absolute 60 1.1.2.2 mycroft minimum installation to a new disk), you would do the 61 1.1.2.2 mycroft following: 62 1.1.2.2 mycroft 63 1.1.2.2 mycroft cd .../NetBSD-1.2.1 # the top of the tree 64 1.1.2.2 mycroft cd x68k/binary 65 1.1.2.2 mycroft tar cf <tape_device> base121 etc121 66 1.1.2.2 mycroft 67 1.1.2.2 mycroft (Note that you still need to fill in "<tape_device>" in the 68 1.1.2.2 mycroft example.) 69 1.1.2.2 mycroft 70 1.1.2.2 mycroft Once you have the files on the tape, you can proceed to the 71 1.1.2.2 mycroft next step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're 72 1.1.2.2 mycroft installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing 73 1.1.2.2 mycroft your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing 74 1.1.2.2 mycroft installation, go directly to the section on upgrading. 75 1.1.2.2 mycroft 76 1.1.2.2 mycroft To install or upgrade NetBSD using a remote partition, mounted via 77 1.1.2.2 mycroft NFS, you must do the following: 78 1.1.2.2 mycroft 79 1.1.2.2 mycroft NOTE: This method of installation is recommended only for 80 1.1.2.2 mycroft those already familiar with using BSD network 81 1.1.2.2 mycroft configuration and management commands. If you aren't, 82 1.1.2.2 mycroft this documentation should help, but is not intended to 83 1.1.2.2 mycroft be all-encompassing. 84 1.1.2.2 mycroft 85 1.1.2.2 mycroft Place the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install into a 86 1.1.2.2 mycroft directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable 87 1.1.2.2 mycroft by the machine on which you are installing or upgrading NetBSD. 88 1.1.2.2 mycroft This will probably require modifying the /etc/exports file on 89 1.1.2.2 mycroft of the NFS server and resetting its mount daemon (mountd). 90 1.1.2.2 mycroft (Both of these actions will probably require superuser 91 1.1.2.2 mycroft privileges on the server.) 92 1.1.2.2 mycroft 93 1.1.2.2 mycroft You need to know the the numeric IP address of the NFS server, 94 1.1.2.2 mycroft and, if the server is not on a network directly connected to 95 1.1.2.2 mycroft the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, 96 1.1.2.2 mycroft you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest 97 1.1.2.2 mycroft to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric 98 1.1.2.2 mycroft IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. 99 1.1.2.2 mycroft 100 1.1.2.2 mycroft Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the 101 1.1.2.2 mycroft information mentioned above, you can proceed to the next step 102 1.1.2.2 mycroft in the installation or upgrade process. If you're installing 103 1.1.2.2 mycroft NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing your hard 104 1.1.2.2 mycroft disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing installation, go 105 1.1.2.2 mycroft directly to the section on upgrading. 106 1.1.2.2 mycroft 107 1.1.2.2 mycroft To install or upgrade NetBSD by using FTP to get the installation 108 1.1.2.2 mycroft sets, you must do the following: 109 1.1.2.2 mycroft 110 1.1.2.2 mycroft NOTE: This method of installation is recommended only for 111 1.1.2.2 mycroft those already familiar with using BSD network 112 1.1.2.2 mycroft configuration and management commands. If you aren't, 113 1.1.2.2 mycroft this documentation should help, but is not intended to 114 1.1.2.2 mycroft be all-encompassing. 115 1.1.2.2 mycroft 116 1.1.2.2 mycroft The preparations for this installation/upgrade method are 117 1.1.2.2 mycroft easy; all you make sure that there's some FTP site from which 118 1.1.2.2 mycroft you can retrieve the NetBSD distribution when you're about to 119 1.1.2.2 mycroft install or upgrade. You need to know the numeric IP address 120 1.1.2.2 mycroft of that site, and, if it's not on a network directly connected 121 1.1.2.2 mycroft to the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, 122 1.1.2.2 mycroft you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest 123 1.1.2.2 mycroft to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric 124 1.1.2.2 mycroft IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. 125 1.1.2.2 mycroft 126 1.1.2.2 mycroft Once you have this information, you can proceed to the next 127 1.1.2.2 mycroft step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're 128 1.1.2.2 mycroft installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on 129 1.1.2.2 mycroft preparing your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an 130 1.1.2.2 mycroft existing installation, go directly to the section on 131 1.1.2.2 mycroft upgrading. 132 1.1.2.2 mycroft 133 1.1.2.2 mycroft If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing 134 1.1.2.2 mycroft NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing 135 1.1.2.2 mycroft file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the 136 1.1.2.2 mycroft following: 137 1.1.2.2 mycroft 138 1.1.2.2 mycroft Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in 139 1.1.2.2 mycroft your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must 140 1.1.2.2 mycroft upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the 141 1.1.2.2 mycroft "base121" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, 142 1.1.2.2 mycroft you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade 143 1.1.2.2 mycroft the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system 144 1.1.2.2 mycroft configuration files that you should review and update by hand. 145 1.1.2.2 mycroft 146 1.1.2.2 mycroft Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in 147 1.1.2.2 mycroft the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. 148
Indexes created Thu Oct 30 16:09:53 GMT 2025