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1 $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.2 1998/01/09 18:48:10 perry Exp $ 2 3Installation is supported from several media types, including: 4 5 Magneto-Optical disk (MO) 6 Tape 7 Remote NFS partition 8 FTP 9 10No matter which installation medium you choose, you'll need to have 11a floppy disk. On the first, you'll put the install or upgrade floppy 12image, depending on whether you're installing NetBSD for the first time, 13or upgrading a previous installation. 14 15If you are using a UN*X-like system to write the floppy images to 16disks, you should use the "dd" command to copy the file system images 17(.fs files) directly to the raw floppy disks. It is suggested that 18you read the dd(1) manual page or ask your system administrator to 19determine the correct set of arguments to use; it will be slightly 20different from system to system, and a comprehensive list of the 21possibilities is beyond the scope of this document. 22 23If you are using Human68k to write the floppy images to disks, you should 24use the "rawrite" utility, provided in the "x68k/utils" directory 25of the NetBSD distribution. It will write the file system images (.fs 26files) to disks. 27 28Note that, when installing, the install floppy MUST not be write-protected. 29The install program needs to write some temporary files, and if the 30disk is write-protected, it can't. If you're upgrading your system, 31the upgrade floppy may be write-protected. 32 33Obviously, the steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for 34installation or upgrade depend on which installation medium you 35choose. The steps for the various media are outlined below. 36 37To install or upgrade NetBSD using MO, the MO media MUST be of the 38IBM `Super-floppy' format. The Human68k format is not recognized by this 39release of the NetBSD/x68k. If you have a MS-DOS (or MS-Windows) machine 40with an MO drive connected, use it. If you don't, and if you have 41a program to handle IBM format MO for Human68k, copy all the files in 42the subdirectory "x68k/binaries" and RENAME THEIR NAME IN UPPER CASE. 43 44To install or upgrade NetBSD using a tape, you need to do the 45following: 46 47 To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to make a tape that 48 contains the distribution set files, in "tar" format. If 49 you're making the tape on a UN*X-like system, the easiest way 50 to do so is probably something like: 51 52 tar cf <tape_device> <dist_directories> 53 54 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device that 55 describes the tape drive you're using (possibly /dev/rst0, or 56 something similar, but it will vary from system to system. 57 (If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.) 58 In the above example, "<dist_directories>" are the 59 distribution sets' directories, for the distribution sets you 60 wish to place on the tape. For instance, to put the "base12" 61 and "etc12" distributions on tape (in order to do the absolute 62 minimum installation to a new disk), you would do the 63 following: 64 65 cd .../NetBSD-1.2 # the top of the tree 66 cd x68k/binary 67 tar cf <tape_device> base12 etc12 68 69 (Note that you still need to fill in "<tape_device>" in the 70 example.) 71 72 Once you have the files on the tape, you can proceed to the 73 next step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're 74 installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing 75 your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing 76 installation, go directly to the section on upgrading. 77 78To install or upgrade NetBSD using a remote partition, mounted via 79NFS, you must do the following: 80 81 NOTE: This method of installation is recommended only for 82 those already familiar with using BSD network 83 configuration and management commands. If you aren't, 84 this documentation should help, but is not intended to 85 be all-encompassing. 86 87 Place the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install into a 88 directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable 89 by the machine on which you are installing or upgrading NetBSD. 90 This will probably require modifying the /etc/exports file on 91 of the NFS server and resetting its mount daemon (mountd). 92 (Both of these actions will probably require superuser 93 privileges on the server.) 94 95 You need to know the the numeric IP address of the NFS server, 96 and, if the server is not on a network directly connected to 97 the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, 98 you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest 99 to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric 100 IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. 101 102 Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the 103 information mentioned above, you can proceed to the next step 104 in the installation or upgrade process. If you're installing 105 NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing your hard 106 disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing installation, go 107 directly to the section on upgrading. 108 109To install or upgrade NetBSD by using FTP to get the installation 110sets, you must do the following: 111 112 NOTE: This method of installation is recommended only for 113 those already familiar with using BSD network 114 configuration and management commands. If you aren't, 115 this documentation should help, but is not intended to 116 be all-encompassing. 117 118 The preparations for this installation/upgrade method are 119 easy; all you make sure that there's some FTP site from which 120 you can retrieve the NetBSD distribution when you're about to 121 install or upgrade. You need to know the numeric IP address 122 of that site, and, if it's not on a network directly connected 123 to the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, 124 you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest 125 to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric 126 IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. 127 128 Once you have this information, you can proceed to the next 129 step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're 130 installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on 131 preparing your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an 132 existing installation, go directly to the section on 133 upgrading. 134 135If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing 136NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing 137file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the 138following: 139 140 Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in 141 your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must 142 upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the 143 "base12" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, 144 you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade 145 the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system 146 configuration files that you should review and update by hand. 147 148 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in 149 the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. 150