finish porting these from the sparc versions. they are mostly correct
now though the install instructions could still do with some more work and expansion....
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.\" $NetBSD: contents,v 1.1 2000/08/19 13:16:00 mrg Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: contents,v 1.2 2000/09/17 21:03:32 mrg Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ install this distribution set.
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.if r_pc532 .Em 457k gzipped, 910k uncompressed
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.if r_pmax .Em 792k gzipped, 2.1M uncompressed
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.if r_sparc .Em 2.9M gzipped, 6.7M uncompressed
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XX.if r_sparc .Em 2.9M gzipped, 6.7M uncompressed
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.if r_sparc64 .Em 1.5M gzipped, 4.7M uncompressed
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.if r_vax .Em 517k gzipped, 1M uncompressed
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.if r_x68k .Em 627k gzipped, 1.4M uncompressed
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.\}
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@ -664,9 +664,6 @@ Binary sets for the X Window system are distributed with
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Unfortunately there is no R6.3 Xserver for NetBSD/hp300 yet,
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so we can only distribute the X clients this time.
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.\}
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.if r_sparc64 \{\
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There are no X clients or server provided for NetBSD/sparc64 at this time.
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.\}
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The sets are:
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.Bl -tag -width xcontribmmm
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.It Sy xbase
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@ -684,6 +681,7 @@ the X servers.
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.if r_macppc .Em 2.8M gzipped, 8.3M uncompressed
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.if r_pmax .Em 3.1M gzipped, 11M uncompressed
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.if r_sparc .Em 2.7M gzipped, 8.6M uncompressed
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.if r_sparc64 .Em 2.7M gzipped, 8.6M uncompressed
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.if r_x68k .Em 2.4M gzippeed, 7.7M uncompressed
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.It Sy xcomp
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The extra libraries and include files needed to compile X source code.
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@ -698,6 +696,7 @@ The extra libraries and include files needed to compile X source code.
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.if r_macppc .Em 1.9M gzipped, 8.2M uncompressed
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.if r_pmax .Em 2.1M gzipped, 9.8M uncompressed
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.if r_sparc .Em 1.7M gzipped, 7.4M uncompressed
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.if r_sparc64 .Em 1.7M gzipped, 7.4M uncompressed
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.if r_x68k .Em 1.6M gzipped, 6.8M uncompressed
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.It Sy xcontrib
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Programs that were contributed to X.
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@ -712,6 +711,7 @@ Programs that were contributed to X.
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.if r_macppc .Em 188k gzipped, 580k uncompressed
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.if r_pmax .Em 206k gzipped, 770k uncompressed
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.if r_sparc .Em 205k gzipped, 750k uncompressed
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.if r_sparc64 .Em 205k gzipped, 750k uncompressed
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.if r_x68k .Em 179k gzipped, 670k uncompressed
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.It Sy xfont
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Fonts needed by X.
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@ -726,6 +726,7 @@ Fonts needed by X.
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.if r_macppc .Em 5.7M gzipped, 7.0M uncompressed
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.if r_pmax .Em 5.5M gzipped, 6.7M uncompressed
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.if r_sparc .Em 5.7M gzipped, 7.0M uncompressed
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.if r_sparc64 .Em 5.7M gzipped, 7.0M uncompressed
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.if r_x68k .Em 5.7M gzipped, 7.0M uncompressed
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.
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.if r_atari \{\
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@ -778,6 +779,15 @@ servers with man pages.
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.br
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.Em 3.3M gzipped, 8.4M uncompressed
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.\}
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.if r_sparc64 \{\
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.Pp
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.It Sy xserver
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.No The Xsun, Xsun24, XsunMono and Xprt
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servers with man pages. The 64-bit X server current has problems with
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pixmaps.
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.br
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.Em 3.3M gzipped, 8.4M uncompressed
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.\}
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.if r_x68k \{\
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.Pp
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.It Sy xserver
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@ -1,30 +1,23 @@
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.\"$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.1 2000/08/19 13:16:00 mrg Exp $
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.\"$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.2 2000/09/17 21:03:32 mrg Exp $
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.
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NetBSD/sparc \*V runs on the following classes of machines:
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NetBSD/sparc64 \*V runs on the following classes of machines:
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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. It
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sun4c (e.g. the SS1, SS1+, SS2, IPC, ELC, IPX, and SLC)
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Sbus-based UltraSPARC systems (the Ultra1, Ultra1E, Ultra2, Ultra2E)
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. It
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sun4 (e.g. the 4/100, 4/200, and 4/300 \- note that support
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for the 4/400 processor is incomplete)
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. It
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sun4m (e.g. Classic, LX, SS4, SS5, SS10, and SS20)
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PCI-based UltraSPARC systems (known to work on the Ultra5, Ultra10, Ultra30
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and Ultra250, and may work on many other systems)
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.El
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.Pp
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NetBSD/sparc \*V does
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NetBSD/sparc64 \*V does
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.Em not
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run on these machines (yet):
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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. It
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sun-4/400 (lacking support for the I/O cache, and has
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ethernet problems)
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. It
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sun4d (e.g. sparc center 2000)
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. It
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sun4u (e.g. Ultrasparcs)
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Enterprise Systems (Ex000, E10000)
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.El
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.Pp
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The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and ~60M of disk space.
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The minimal configuration requires 16M of RAM and ~60M of disk space.
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To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run
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X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (NetBSD with 4M of
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RAM feels like Solaris with 4M of RAM.) Note that until you have
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@ -32,52 +25,54 @@ around 16M of RAM, getting more RAM is more important than getting a
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faster CPU.)
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.Pp
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Supported devices include:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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. It Em sun4c/sun4m sbus video:
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cgsix, cgthree, and bwtwo frame buffers
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. br
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cgfourteen and tcx frame buffers (limited
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.Dq emulation
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mode)
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. It Em sun4 video (not thoroughly tested?):
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P4 on-board bwtwo, and VME cgtwo card
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. It Em serial ports:
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ttya and ttyb (can be used as console if needed)
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. It Em ethernet:
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on-board AMD Lance ethernet ("le0"),
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. br
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Sbus AMD Lance ethernet cards,
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. br
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on-board Intel 82586 ethernet (ie0 on 4/100's and 4/200's),
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. br
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VME Intel 82586 ethernet cards
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. It Em SCSI:
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on-board "esp" SCSI controller (sun4c, sun4m and the 4/300),
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. br
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sbus "esp" SCSI controller,
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. br
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Sun "SUN-3"/"si" VME SCSI controller (polled mode only, slow),
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. br
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Sun "SCSI Weird"/"sw" on-board controller (4/110 only, polled)
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. It Em VME disks:
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Xylogics 7053 VME/SMD disk controller ("xd"),
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. br
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Xylogics 450/451 VME disk controller ("xy")
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. br
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[note: VME/IPI disks are not supported]
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. It Em sun floppy disk drive
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. It Em sun keyboard and mouse
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. It Em sun4c audio
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. It Em sun4m audio on Sparcstation Classic
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.Bd -literal
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Ethernet devices:
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- Sbus LANCE ethernet (le) [*]
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- Sbus HME ethernet (hme) [*]
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- Sbus BigMac ethernet (be) [*]
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- PCI HME ethernet (hme)
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- PCI Tulip (tlp)
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Video devices:
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- Sbus cgsix
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SCSI host controllers:
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- ncr53c9x based controllers (esp)
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- ncr53c8xx based controllers (siop)
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- ISP10x0 based controllers (isp)
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- Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][2][W] cards and onboard PCI designs
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using the AIC-7770, AIC-7850, AIC-7860, AIC-7870,
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AIC-7880 and AIC-789x chipsets.
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PCI IDE host controllers:
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- CMD Tech PCI064[3689] IDE Controllers (pciide) [**]
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Serial devices:
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- Sbus z8530 serial (zs)
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Parallel devices:
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- Sbus parallel ports (bpp)
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- PCI/Ebus parallel ports (lpt)
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.El
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There are a large number of untested PCI drivers that have never
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been tested on UltraSPARC PCI systems, that may "just work".
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.Pp
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Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
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[*] Sbus ethernet drivers current have a problem with interrupts and
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do not perform properly except in extreme low usage conditions, rendering
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them effectively unusable.
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.Pp
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[**]
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Access to devices on the secondary PCIIDE channel currently do not work.
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.Pp
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Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get questions
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about:
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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. It
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multiprocessor sun4m machines
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. It
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audio drivers for sun4m machines (other than the Sparcstation Classic)
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. It
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interrupt driven SCSI driver for sun-4/100's and sun-4/200's
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.Bl -literal
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Floppy drives
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Audio devices:
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- Sbus & PCI based system audio (audiocs)
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Serial devices:
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- PCI based systems (sab)
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Keyboard & Mouse devices:
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- PCI based systems
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Video devices:
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- Creator3D framebuffers (ffb)
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- General PCI VGA support
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SCSI host controllers:
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- ESP366 based controllers found in Ultra1E and Ultra2
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systems (esp)
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.El
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.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.1 2000/08/19 13:16:00 mrg Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.2 2000/09/17 21:03:32 mrg Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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There are several ways to install NetBSD onto a disk. The easiest way
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in terms of preliminary setup is to use the NetBSD miniroot that can
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be booted off your local disk's swap partition. Alternatively, if your
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Sparcstation is hooked up in a network you can find a server and arrange
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UltraSPARC is hooked up in a network you can find a server and arrange
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for a diskless setup which is a convenient way to install on a machine
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whose disk does not currently hold a usable operating system (see the
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section `Installing NetBSD by using a diskless setup' below). There is
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also a bootable 1.4MB floppy available that contains a slightly less
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featureful miniroot environment.
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section `Installing NetBSD by using a diskless setup' below).
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.
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.Ss2 Installing NetBSD by using the NetBSD miniroot.
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.
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available during the installation process.
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.Pp
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Loading the miniroot onto your raw partition is simple. On NetBSD as well
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as SunOS you use a command like:
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.Dl # Ic dd if=miniroot.fs of=/dev/rsd0b bs=4k conv=sync
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(Here, `/dev/rsd0b' is assumed to be your swap partition.) There's a
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as Solaris you use a command like:
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.Dl # Ic dd if=miniroot.fs of=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1 bs=4k conv=sync
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(Here, `/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1' is assumed to be your swap partition.) There's a
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potential problem here if /dev/rsd0b is actually in use as a swap
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partition by your currently running system. If you don't have another
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disk or partition to spare, you can usually get away with running this
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.Dl # Ic halt
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.Pp
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Then boot the miniroot by typing the appropriate command at the PROM:
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.Dl \*> Ic "b sd(,,1)netbsd -s # for sun4 monitors
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.Dl ok Ic "boot sd(,,1)netbsd -s # for version 1 OpenBOOT ROMs
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.Dl ok Ic "boot disk:b netbsd -s # for version 2 OpenBOOT ROMs
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.Dl ok Ic "boot disk:b netbsd -s
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.Pp
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If you've loaded the miniroot onto some other disk than `sd0' adapt
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the boot specifier accordingly, e.g.:
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.Dl ok Ic boot disk1:b netbsd -s
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to boot from SCSI disk target 1 from a version 2 OpenBOOT ROM.
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If you have to use the old-style
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.Ic sd( Ns Ar c,u,p Ns Ic \&)
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syntax to boot from a
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SCSI disk, you can calculate the parameters as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width xcc
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. It Ar c
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specifies the controller number
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. It Ar u
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the hexadecimal number obtained from evaluating
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the expression `(8 * TARGET) + LUN'
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. It Ar p
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the partition number from which to boot (0=`a', 1=`b', etc).
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.El
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.Pp
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The monitor boot command will cause the NetBSD kernel contained in the
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.Sx Running the installation scripts
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below.
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.
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.Ss2 Installing NetBSD by using the bootable floppy.
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.
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The NetBSD install floppy works only on the sun4c and sun4m class
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machines. From the OpenBOOT prompt, the following should boot the
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floppy.
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.Dl ok Ic "boot fd(,,1) # for version 1 OpenBOOT ROMs
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.Dl ok Ic "boot /fd # either of these for version
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.Dl ok Ic "boot floppy # 2 OpenBOOT ROMs
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.Pp
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After the initial probe messages you'll be asked to start
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the install or upgrade procedure. Proceed to the section
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.Sx Running the installation scripts
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below.
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.
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.Ss2 Installing NetBSD by using a diskless setup.
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.
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First, you must setup a diskless client configuration on a server. If
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instructed to boot "over the net". It will look for a filename composed of
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the machine's IP address followed by the machine's architecture, separated
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by a period. For example, a sun4c machine which has been assigned IP
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address 130.115.144.11, will make an TFTP request for `8273900B.SUN4C'.
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address 130.115.144.11, will make an TFTP request for `8273900B.SUN4U'.
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Normally, this file is a symbolic link to an appropriate second-stage
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boot program, which should be located in a place where the TFTP daemon
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can find it (remember, many TFTP daemons run in a chroot'ed environment).
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You can find the boot program in
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.Pa /usr/mdec/boot.net
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.Pa /usr/mdec/ofwboot.net
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in the NetBSD/sparc distribution.
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.(Note
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The only difference between
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.Pa /usr/mdec/boot.net No and Pa /usr/mdec/boot
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is in the a.out header, which has been magically
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transformed in a way that makes it usable on all versions of Sparc PROMs.
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The
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.Pa /usr/mdec/ofwboot
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does not know about netbooting.
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.Note)
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.Pp
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After the boot program has been loaded into memory and given control by
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. It Ar root Ns Pa /etc/fstab
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Enter the entries for the remotely mounted filesystems.
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For example:
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.Dl server:/export/root/client / nfs rw 0 0
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.Dl server:/export/exec/sun4.netbsd /usr nfs rw 0 0
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.Dl server:/export/root/client / nfs rw 0 0
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.Dl server:/export/exec/sun4u.netbsd /usr nfs rw 0 0
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.El
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.Pp
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Now you must populate the `/dev' directory for your client. If yoarserver
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Boot your workstation from the server by entering the appropriate `boot'
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command at the monitor prompt. Depending on the PROM version in your machine,
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this command takes one of the following forms:
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.Dl "\*> b le()netbsd -s # for sun4 monitors
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.Dl "ok boot le()netbsd -s # for version 1 OpenBOOT ROMs
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.Dl "ok boot net netbsd -s # for version 2 OpenBOOT ROMs
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.Dl "ok boot net netbsd -s
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.Pp
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This will boot the NetBSD kernel in single-user mode.
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.(Note
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The latter two examples assume you operate the OpenBOOT ROM in
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"new command mode". If your machine comes up and gives you a `\*>' prompt
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instead of `ok', type:
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.Dl "\*>n # enter native OpenBOOT mode
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.Dl "ok setenv sunmon-compat? false # make it permanent
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.Dl "ok
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.Note)
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.Pp
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If you use a diskless setup with a separately NFS-mounted /usr filesystem,
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mount
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.Dl netbsd# Ic mount /usr
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.Pp
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.Em NOTE:
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.Em For floppy installs, the text editor provided is ed.
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.Em For miniroot installs, the text editor is vi.
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When using
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Partitions on which you intend to have a mountable filesystem, should
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be given fstype `4.2BSD'. Remember, the `c' partition should describe
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the whole disk.
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The whole disk and typically does not require editing.
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The `(Cyl. x - y)' info that appears after the hash (`#') character is
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treated as a comment and need not be filled in when altering partitions.
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d: 525504 114688 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 256 - 1428)
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.Ed
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.Pp
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If you are upgrading a NetBSD installation, start the upgrade script:
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.Dl netbsd# Ic sh upgrade.sh
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else, start the installation script:
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.Dl netbsd# Ic sh install.sh
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To begin installation or the upgrade procedure, run sysinst:
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.Dl netbsd# Ic sysinst
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.Ss2 Running the installation scripts.
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.Ss2 Running sysinst
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.
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The installation scripts will do most of the work of transferring the
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The sysinst program will do most of the work of transferring the
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system from the distribution sets onto your disk. You will frequently be
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asked for confirmation before the script proceeds with each phase of the
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asked for confirmation before sysinst proceeds with each phase of the
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installation process.
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.Pp
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Occasionally, you will have to provide a piece of information such as the
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determination of the disk to install NetBSD on
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. It
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checking of the partition information on the disk
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. It
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setting of the local timezone
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. It
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creating and mounting the NetBSD filesystems
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. It
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@ -341,22 +298,9 @@ The installation script goes through the following phases:
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installation of boot programs
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.El
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.Pp
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Now try a reboot. Initially I'd suggest you "boot sd()netbsd -bs", then
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Now try a reboot. Initially I'd suggest you "boot netbsd -bs", then
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try multiuser after that. If you boot single-user the NetBSD incantation
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to make the root filesystem writable is
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.Dl netbsd# Ic mount -u /dev/sd0a /
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The Sun monitor might have been setup to instruct the boot program to load
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a file called "vmunix". On OpenBOOT ROM systems you can change it to load
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"netbsd" instead using the following commands:
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.Pp
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On version 1 OpenBOOT ROMs:
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.Dl \*>n
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.Dl ok Ic setenv boot-from sd(0,0,0)netbsd
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.Dl ok
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.Pp
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On version 2 OpenBOOT ROMs:
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.Dl ok Ic setenv boot-file netbsd
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.Dl ok Ic setenv boot-device /sbus/esp/sd@0,0
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.Pp
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.Em Congratulations ,
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you have successfully installed NetBSD \*V.
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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
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.\" $NetBSD: prep,v 1.1 2000/08/19 13:16:00 mrg Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: prep,v 1.2 2000/09/17 21:03:32 mrg Exp $
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.
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Before you start you might need to consider your disk configuration
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to sort out a quirk in SCSI-ID to SD-UNIT mapping that exists on
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@ -21,11 +21,6 @@ Unlike SunOS and the OpenBOOT ROM, a generic NetBSD kernel numbers
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scsi drives sequentially as it finds them. The drive with the
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lowest scsi-id will be called sd0, the next one sd1, etc.
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.Pp
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To ease the installation process, the default NetBSD kernel in the
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distribution is setup to match the Sun mapping above by hard-wiring
|
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scsi-id#3 to sd0 and scsi-id#0 to sd3. The remaining drives will be
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dynamically mapped to other sd* numbers.
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.Pp
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A truly generic NetBSD kernel is also provided as `/netbsd.GENERIC',
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which will do the standard NetBSD probe ordering. If your configuration
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differs from the default Sun setup, you can try to use this kernel to
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@ -35,21 +30,10 @@ complete the installation.
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This is also a concern when you start building your own customised kernels.
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.Note)
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.Pp
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Your OpenBOOT ROM may need some setup. make sure you boot from `new
|
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command mode'. If your machine comes up and gives you a `\*>' prompt
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instead of `ok', type:
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.Dl \*> Ic n
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.Dl ok Ic setenv sunmon-compat? false
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.Dl ok
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This is needed because the NetBSD kernel relies on functionality provided
|
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by OpenBOOT ROMs -- the ability to pass down Forth commands and have them
|
||||
executed in the ROM -- that appears to go away when the OpenBOOT ROM
|
||||
operates in `old monitor compatibility' mode.
|
||||
.Pp
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||||
Also, you cannot use the security modes of the sparc OpenBOOT ROM.
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You cannot use the security modes of the sparc OpenBOOT ROM.
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.Dl ok Ic setenv security-mode none
|
||||
.Pp
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If you're installing NetBSD/sparc for the first time it's a good idea
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If you're installing NetBSD/sparc64 for the first time it's a good idea
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||||
to look at the partition sizes of disk you intend installing NetBSD on.
|
||||
.Pp
|
||||
Asumming a classic partition scheme with root (`/') and /usr filesystems,
|
||||
|
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@ -57,15 +41,5 @@ a comfortable size for the NetBSD root filesystem partition is about 20MB;
|
|||
a good initial size for the swap partition is twice the amount of physical
|
||||
memory in your machine (though, unlike SunOS 4.x, there are no restrictions
|
||||
on the size of the swap partition that would render part of your memory
|
||||
unusable). A full binary installation takes about 60MB in `/usr'.
|
||||
.Pp
|
||||
Some network devices (i.e. the built-in `le' interface on sun4m machines)
|
||||
allow a choice between operating on a UTP or a AUI port. The `le' driver
|
||||
supports automatic detection of the port which is actually connected to
|
||||
the wire.
|
||||
.Pp
|
||||
If automatic detection is not available or not working properly in your
|
||||
environment, you may have to specify the type connection using the
|
||||
`media' parameter of ifconfig(8). During installation, you'll get the
|
||||
opportunity to specify the appropriate medium. Use ``10base5/AUI''
|
||||
to select the AUI connector, or ``10baseT/UTP'' to select the UTP connector.
|
||||
unusable). A full binary installation including X11R6 takes about 150MB
|
||||
in `/usr'.
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
|
|||
.\" $NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.1 2000/08/19 13:16:00 mrg Exp $
|
||||
.\" $NetBSD: upgrade,v 1.2 2000/09/17 21:03:32 mrg Exp $
|
||||
.\"
|
||||
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
|
||||
.\" All rights reserved.
|
||||
|
|
@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ To upgrade to
|
|||
.Nx \*V
|
||||
from a previous version follow the instructions in the section
|
||||
.Sx Installing NetBSD ,
|
||||
but run the script
|
||||
.Pa upgrade.sh
|
||||
instead of
|
||||
.Pa install.sh .
|
||||
but run sysinst and choose the upgrade option rather than the install
|
||||
option.
|
||||
.Pp
|
||||
The upgrade script will use the existing disk partitions to install the
|
||||
The upgrade option will use the existing disk partitions to install the
|
||||
new system in, and also preserves the files in
|
||||
.Pa /etc .
|
||||
.Pa /etc
|
||||
by moving them to
|
||||
.Pa /etc.old .
|
||||
|
|
|
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