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Installation is supported from several media types, including:
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TOS HD partitions
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Tape
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No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have three disks handy,
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on which you will put the install and boot floppy images.
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All the images are available from the directory "atari/floppies",
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under the root of the NetBSD tree at your favorite archive site.
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If you are using NetBSD/atari to make the floppies, you should use
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the command dd(1) to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to
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the disk. To write onto fd0 use:
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dd if=inst-10.fs.1 of=/dev/rfd0b bs=9b
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If you are using TOS to make the floppies, grab the 'rawwrite' utility
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from the "atari/utils" directory and issue the command:
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rawwrite boot-10.fs
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This will create the boot-floppy on the floppy in drive a. The floppies
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should be pre-formatted on 720Kb for both the 'dd' and 'rawwrite' commands
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to work. Pre-formatting can be best done using the desktop format command.
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Some other utilities seem to be giving problems.
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The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
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for installation depend on which method of installation
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you choose. The various methods are explained below.
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To prepare for installing via an GEMDOS partition:
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To install NetBSD from an GEMDOS partition, you need to
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get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install
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on your system on to an GEMDOS partition. All of the
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set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory
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instead of separate ones for each distribution set. This
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will also simplify the installation work later on.
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Note where you place the files you will need this later.
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
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step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
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To prepare for installing via a tape:
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To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow
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get the NetBSD filesets you wish to install on
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your system on to the appropriate kind of tape,
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in tar format.
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If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest
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way to do so is:
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tar cvf <tape_device> <files>
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where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device
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that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly
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something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-).
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If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.
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"<files>" are the names of the "set_name.nnn" files
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which you want to be placed on the tape.
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
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step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
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