installation notes. still much work to be done here.

distrib/notes/sgimips/Makefile

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+#	$NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.1 2002/05/18 17:31:43 pooka Exp $
+
+MERGED_SRCS+=${.CURDIR}/../common/sysinst ${.CURDIR}/../common/upgrade
+
+.include <bsd.man.mk>

distrib/notes/sgimips/hardware

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+.\"	$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.1 2002/05/18 17:31:43 pooka Exp $
+.
+.Nx*M
+is aimed to run on MIPS-based computers manufactured by SGI.
+.Ss2 Supported machines
+.(bullet -compact
+Indy
+.It
+Indigo2
+.bullet)
+There is some initial support for the SGI O2, but it is known to currently
+have various problems.

distrib/notes/sgimips/install

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+.\"     $NetBSD: install,v 1.1 2002/05/18 17:31:43 pooka Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
+.\"    must display the following acknowledgement:
+.\"        This product includes software developed by the NetBSD
+.\"        Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.
+.\" 4. Neither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its
+.\"    contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
+.\"    from this software without specific prior written permission.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS
+.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
+.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS
+.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
+.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
+.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
+.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
+.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
+.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.
+The steps taken for installing
+.Nx*M
+are different for diskless and hard disk configurations.
+.Ss2 Installation for diskless configurations
+This sections assumes you know how to configure DHCP, TFTP,
+and NFS services on your server.
+.Pp
+.(enum
+Place the kernel into the TFTP server's download area.  If the
+kernel has a
+.Dq .gz
+suffix, you must first uncompress it using the
+.Pa gunzip
+program. You must also decide which kernel you need to boot. Because of
+differences in SGI hardware between different machines, the kernel load
+addresses differ. You will need GENERIC_INDY for the Indy and Indigo2,
+while GENERIC should be enough for the O2.
+.Pp
+.Dl server# Ic cp netbsd-GENERIC /tftpboot/netbsd-sgimips
+.Dl server# Ic cp netbsd-GENERIC_INDY /tftpboot/netbsd-sgimips-indy
+.Pp
+Note that your DHCP server must be configured to specify
+this file as the boot file for the client.
+.It
+Unpack the distribution sets into the client's root directory
+on the server.
+.Pp
+.Dl server# Ic cd /export/client/mipseb
+.Dl server# Ic gzcat .../base.tgz | tar xvpf -
+.Dl server# Ic gzcat .../etc.tgz | tar xvpf -
+.Dl [ repeat for all sets you wish to unpack ]
+.It
+Load the kernel from the TFTP server:
+.Pp
+.Dl > setenv SystemPartition bootp():
+.Dl > setenv netaddr your.ip.here.please
+.Dl > boot
+.enum)
+For more tricks with the bootprom, try reading the "prom" manual page
+on found on IRIX.
+.Pp
+The installation of your diskless
+.Nx*M
+system is now complete!  You may now skip ahead to any post-installation
+instructions.
+.

distrib/notes/sgimips/legal

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+.\"	$NetBSD: legal,v 1.1 2002/05/18 17:31:43 pooka Exp $
+.

distrib/notes/sgimips/prep

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+.\"	$NetBSD: prep,v 1.1 2002/05/18 17:31:43 pooka Exp $
+.
+First and foremost, before beginning the installation process,
+.Em make sure you have a reliable backup
+of any data (e.g., an old IRIX installation) you wish to preserve.
+.Pp
+Booting
+.Nx*M
+for the first time is most commonly done from the network. You must
+set up DHCP, TFTP, and NFS for the installation procedure to be
+successful. Some SGI bootproms, such as the ones found on O2s, can read
+ELF kernels directly from the network, others require that you boot
+an ECOFF version of the kernel. You can convert the standard ELF
+format kernel into an ECOFF kernel using the
+.Pa elf2ecoff
+tool.
+.Pp
+Note that some older bootproms have an interesting bug in reading the
+kernel via TFTP. They handle the port number as a signed entity, and
+can thus not connect to ports >32767. You can work around this problem
+on the TFTP server (given that it is a NetBSD host) by using
+.Dq sysctl
+to set
+.Dq net.inet.ip.anonportmin
+and
+.Dq net.inet.ip.anonportmax
+to more suitable values.
+.Pp
+The O2 internal MACE Ethernet chip isn't supported yet, so to boot the O2
+and mount nfsroot, you will need an external NIC in the PCI slot.

distrib/notes/sgimips/whatis

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+.\"	$NetBSD: whatis,v 1.1 2002/05/18 17:31:43 pooka Exp $
+.
+This is the first major release of
+.Nx
+for the \*M platform.

distrib/notes/sgimips/xfer

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+.\"	$NetBSD: xfer,v 1.1 2002/05/18 17:31:43 pooka Exp $
+.