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1 $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.3 1998/10/21 14:32:36 minoura Exp $ 2 3Installation is supported from several media types, including: 4 5 Removable SCSI hard disk, or 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 38 39To install or upgrade NetBSD using a removable SCSI harddisk or MO, 40you need to the following: 41 42 To install NetBSD from a removablethe media MUST be of the IBM 43 `Super-floppy' format. The Human68k format is not recognized 44 by this release of the NetBSD/x68k. If you have a MS-DOS (or 45 MS-Windows) machine with an MO drive connected, use it. If 46 you don't, and if you have a program to handle IBM format MO 47 for Human68k, copy all the files in the subdirectory 48 "x68k/binaries" and CHANGE THEIR NAMES IN UPPER CASE. 49 50To install or upgrade NetBSD using a tape, you need to do the 51following: 52 53 To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to make a tape that 54 contains the distribution set files, in "tar" format. If 55 you're making the tape on a UN*X-like system, the easiest way 56 to do so is probably something like: 57 58 tar cf <tape_device> <dist_directories> 59 60 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device that 61 describes the tape drive you're using (possibly /dev/rst0, or 62 something similar, but it will vary from system to system. 63 (If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.) 64 In the above example, "<dist_directories>" are the 65 distribution sets' directories, for the distribution sets you 66 wish to place on the tape. For instance, to put the "base" 67 and "etc" distributions on tape (in order to do the absolute 68 minimum installation to a new disk), you would do the 69 following: 70 71 cd .../NetBSD-_VER # the top of the tree 72 cd x68k/binary/sets 73 tar cf <tape_device> base.tgz etc.tgz 74 75 (Note that you still need to fill in "<tape_device>" in the 76 example.) 77 78 Once you have the files on the tape, you can proceed to the 79 next step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're 80 installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing 81 your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing 82 installation, go directly to the section on upgrading. 83 84To install or upgrade NetBSD using a remote partition, mounted via 85NFS, you must do the following: 86 87 NOTE: This method of installation is recommended only for 88 those already familiar with using BSD network 89 configuration and management commands. If you aren't, 90 this documentation should help, but is not intended to 91 be all-encompassing. 92 93 Place the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install into a 94 directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable 95 by the machine on which you are installing or upgrading NetBSD. 96 This will probably require modifying the /etc/exports file on 97 of the NFS server and resetting its mount daemon (mountd). 98 (Both of these actions will probably require superuser 99 privileges on the server.) 100 101 You need to know the the numeric IP address of the NFS server, 102 and, if the server is not on a network directly connected to 103 the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, 104 you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest 105 to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric 106 IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. 107 108 Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the 109 information mentioned above, you can proceed to the next step 110 in the installation or upgrade process. If you're installing 111 NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing your hard 112 disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing installation, go 113 directly to the section on upgrading. 114 115To install or upgrade NetBSD by using FTP to get the installation 116sets, you must do the following: 117 118 NOTE: This method of installation is recommended only for 119 those already familiar with using BSD network 120 configuration and management commands. If you aren't, 121 this documentation should help, but is not intended to 122 be all-encompassing. 123 124 The preparations for this installation/upgrade method are 125 easy; all you make sure that there's some FTP site from which 126 you can retrieve the NetBSD distribution when you're about to 127 install or upgrade. You need to know the numeric IP address 128 of that site, and, if it's not on a network directly connected 129 to the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, 130 you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest 131 to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric 132 IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. 133 134 Once you have this information, you can proceed to the next 135 step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're 136 installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on 137 preparing your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an 138 existing installation, go directly to the section on 139 upgrading. 140 141If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing 142NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing 143file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the 144following: 145 146 Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in 147 your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must 148 upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the 149 "base.tgz" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, 150 you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade 151 the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system 152 configuration files that you should review and update by hand. 153 154 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in 155 the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. 156