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The mvme68k-specific portion of the NetBSD _VER release is found in the
"mvme68k" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid
out as follows:
.../NetBSD-_VER/mvme68k/
INSTALL.txt Installation notes; this file.
install/ Boot programs, a VME147 kernel,
a stand-alone RAMDISK kernel, and
a miniroot filesystem image.
see below.
binary/ mvme68k binary distribution sets;
see below.
security/ mvme68k security distribution;
see below.
.../mvme68k/install/
The NetBSD/mvme68k install distribution contains files that can be
used to install NetBSD onto a completely "bare" VME147. The files
in the "mvme68k/install" directory are described below:
miniroot.gz A gzipped copy of the miniroot filesystem.
This image is to be un-gzipped and copied
into the swap area of a disk.
netbsd-rd.gz A gzipped copy of the "RAMDISK kernel"
for installing the miniroot filesystem.
netbsd.gz A gzipped VME147 kernel (for upgrade)
stboot A tape boot-block, in the form required to
allow 147-Bug to boot from tape. This is the
first segment of a boot tape.
bootst A copy of the tape boot program, used
as the second segment of a boot tape.
sboot A copy of the serial boot program. This is
necessary if you don't have a tape drive,
but you _do_ have another system which can
act as a boot and NFS server. This is also
useful if you are installing a diskless
NetBSD/mvme68k system.
netboot A copy of the network boot program. Used
in conjunction with sboot to get your system
booted over a network.
These files can be used to make a boot tape suitable for installing
NetBSD/mvme68k. These files can also be used to configure an NFS server
to support installation "over the network". See the section "Getting
the NetBSD System onto Useful Media" for instructions on either method.
.../mvme68k/binary/
The NetBSD/mvme68k binary distribution sets contain the binaries which
comprise the NetBSD _VER release for the VME147. There are seven binary
distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary
distribution sets are as follows:
base The NetBSD/mvme68k _VER base binary distribution. You
MUST install this distribution set. It contains the
base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the
system to run and be minimally functional. It includes
shared library support, and excludes everything
described below.
[ 9.2M gzipped, 26.5M uncompressed ]
comp The NetBSD/mvme68k Compiler tools. All of the tools
relating to C and C++. This set includes the system
include files (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler
tool chain, and the various system libraries (except
the shared libraries, which are included as part of the
base set). This set also includes the manual pages for
all of the utilities it contains, as well as the system
call and library manual pages.
[ 6.9M gzipped, 24.1M uncompressed ]
etc This distribution set contains the system configuration
files that reside in /etc and in several other places.
This set MUST be installed if you are installing the
system from scratch, but should NOT be used if you are
upgrading. (If you are upgrading, it's recommended that
you get a copy of this set and CAREFULLY upgrade your
configuration files by hand.)
[ 53K gzipped, 327K uncompressed ]
games This set includes the games and their manual pages.
[ 2.9M gzipped, 7.5M uncompressed ]
man This set includes all of the manual pages for the
binaries and other software contained in the base set.
Note that it does not include any of the manual pages
that are included in the other sets.
[ 2.5K gzipped, 10.3M uncompressed ]
misc This set includes the system dictionaries (which are
rather large), the typesettable document set, and
man pages for other architectures which happen to be
installed from the source tree by default.
[ 2.3M gzipped, 8.7M uncompressed ]
text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools,
including groff, all related programs, and their
manual pages.
[ 1.0M gzipped, 3.9M uncompressed ]
.../mvme68k/security/
The mvme68k security distribution set is named "secr" and can be found
in the "mvme68k/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD _VER distribution
tree. It contains executables which are built in the "src/domestic" portion
of the NetBSD source tree. It can only be found on those sites which carry
the complete NetBSD distribution and that can legally obtain it. (Remember,
because of United States law, it may not be legal to distribute this set to
locations outside of the United States and Canada.)
[ 128K gzipped, 275K uncompressed ]
The mvme68k binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files.
Each mvme68k binary distribution set also has its own "CKSUMS" file, just
as the source distribution sets do.
The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally
well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that
method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That
is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e.
replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the command:
tar --unlink -zxvpf set.tar.gz
from /. Note that the "--unlink" flag is very important!
For best results, it is recommended that you follow the installation
and/or upgrade procedures documented in this file.

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NetBSD/mvme68k _VER runs on Motorola MVME147 boards.
The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and ~100MB of disk space.
To install the entire system requires much more disk space (approx.
200MB additional space is necessary for full sources. Double that if you
want to recompile it all!). To run X (clients only) or compile the system,
more RAM is recommended. Good performance requires 8MB of RAM, or 16 MB
when running the X Window System.
Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install:
partition: advise needed
root (/) 20M 12M
user (/usr) 100M 80M
swap (2 or 3 * RAM) 8M
Anything else is up to you!
Note that the mvme68k installation procedure uses a `miniroot' image
which is placed into the swap area of the disk. The swap partition
must be large enough to hold this miniroot image (> 6Mb).
The following VME147 hardware is supported:
Serial ports (RS232):
built-in console, tty01, tty02 and tty03
Parallel port:
On-board centronics style printer port
Network interfaces:
On-board Lance Ethernet (le)
SCSI: (Most SCSI disks, tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.)
On-board wd33c93 SCSI bus interface chip (async only for now).
Miscellaneous:
Battery-backed real-time clock.
VMEbus RAM cards.
If it's not on this list, there is no support for it in this release.

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Installing NetBSD is a relatively complex process, but if you have
this document in hand it should not be too difficult.
There are several ways to install NetBSD onto your disk. If your
machine has a tape drive the easiest way is "Installing from tape"
(details below). If your machine is on a network with a suitable
NFS server, then "Installing from NFS" is the next best method.
Otherwise, if you have another VME147 machine running NetBSD you can
initialize the disk on that machine and then move the disk.
* Installing from tape:
Create the NetBSD/mvme68k _VER boot tape as described in the section
entitled "Preparing a boot tape". Then, with the tape in the drive,
type the following at the 147Bug prompt:
--> 147-Bug> bo 5
As mentioned earlier, this assumes your tape is jumpered for SCSI-id 5.
As the tape loads (which may take 20 to 30 seconds), you will see a
series of status messages. It may be useful if you can capture these
messages to a file, or a scrollable xterm window. In particular, you
should make a note of the lines which describe the geometry of the
SCSI disks detected by NetBSD. They are of the form:
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <CDC, 94161-9, 2506> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
sd0: 148MB, 967 cyl, 9 head, 35 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 304605 sectors
The information of most interest is the number of sectors; here it's
304605. You will need this number when you come to create a disklabel
for that drive.
[ START OF STATUS MESSAGES ]
RAM address from VMEbus = $00000000
Booting from: VME147, Controller 5, Device 0
Loading: Operating System
Volume: NBSD
IPL loaded at: $003F0000
>> BSD MVME147 tapeboot [$Revision: 1.1 $]
578616+422344+55540+[46032+51284]=0x11a6e4
Start @ 0x8000 ...
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
NetBSD 1.3 (RAMDISK) #1: Sun Dec 21 16:19:04 GMT 1997
steve@soapy.mctavish.demon.co.uk:/usr/src/sys/arch/mvme68k/compile/RAMDISK
Motorola MVME-147S: 25MHz MC68030 CPU+MMU, MC68882 FPU
real mem = 7237632
avail mem = 6381568
using 88 buffers containing 360448 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
pcc0 at mainbus0: Peripheral Channel Controller, rev 0, vecbase 0x40
clock0 at pcc0 offset 0x0 ipl 5: Mostek MK48T02, 2048 bytes of NVRAM
.
.
[ END OF STATUS MESSAGES ]
Note that the exact text of the messages will vary depending on which
MVME147 variant you're using.
Finally, you will see the following "welcome" message:
[ START OF WELCOME MESSAGE ]
Welcome to the NetBSD/mvme68k RAMDISK root!
This environment is designed to do only four things:
1: Partititon your disk (use the command: edlabel /dev/rsd0c)
2: Copy a miniroot image into the swap partition (/dev/rsd0b)
3: Make that partition bootable (using 'installboot')
4: Reboot (using the swap partition, i.e. /dev/sd0b).
Copying the miniroot can be done several ways, allowing the source
of the miniroot image to be on any of these:
boot tape, NFS server, TFTP server, rsh server
The easiest is loading from tape, which is done as follows:
mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind
mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 3
dd bs=8k if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/rsd0b
(For help with other methods, please see the install notes.)
To reboot using the swap partition after running installboot, first
use "halt", then at the Bug monitor prompt use a command like:
bo 0,,b:
To view this message again, type: cat /.welcome
ssh:
[ END OF WELCOME MESSAGE ]
You must now create a disklabel on the disk you wish to use for the
root filesystem. This will usually be 'sd0'. The disklabel is used by
NetBSD to identify the starting block and size of each partition on
the disk.
Partitions are named 'sd0a', 'sd0b', 'sd0c' etc, up to 'sd0h'. The
mvme68k port of NetBSD makes some assumptions about the first three
partitions on a boot disk:
sd0a The root filesystem.
sd0b The swap partition.
sd0c The whole disk. Also known as the Raw Partition.
The 'Raw Partition' is special; NetBSD is able to use it even if the
disk has no label. You should never create a filesystem on the Raw
Partition, even on a non-boot disk.
It is good practice to put /usr on a different partition than / (sd0a).
So, the first available partition for /usr is 'sd0d'. Refer to the
section entitled "NetBSD System Requirements and Supported Devices" for
information on the recommended sizes of the /, /usr and swap partitions.
You are not required to define any partitions beyond sd0d, but if you
have a large disk drive, you might want to create several other partitions
for filesystems such as /home or /usr/src. Note that at this time you
are only required to partition the root/boot disk; you will get the
opportunity to partition any other disks in your system from the main
'miniroot' installation program.
To create the disklabel and partitions, use the 'edlabel' program,
passing it the name of the Raw Partition of your root/boot disk. Note
that '-->' at the start of a line in the following examples indicates
you are being prompted to enter some information. Obviously, you won't
see this when you run the program for real.
--> ssh: edlabel /dev/rsd0c
edlabel menu:
print - display the current disk label
modify - prompt for changes to the label
write - write the new label to disk
quit - terminate program
edlabel>
The program shows what commands it recognises; "print", "modify",
"write" and "quit". It will accept the first letter of a command if
you don't feel like typing each one in full.
To start creating the basic partitions, you should enter 'm' (modify)
at the edlabel prompt, then enter the letter corresponding to the first
partition, 'a'. (Note: the program shows "a-i : modify partition". This
is incorrect for port-mvme68k. Only letters 'a' to 'h' are acceptable.
This will be fixed in the next release.)
--> edlabel> m
modify subcommands:
@ : modify disk parameters
a-i : modify partition
s : standarize geometry
q : quit this subcommand
--> edlabel/modify> a
a (root) 0 (0/00/00) 0 (0/00/00) unused
--> start as <blkno> or <cyls/trks/sects> : 0
--> length as <nblks> or <cyls/trks/sects> : 38000
--> type: 4.2BSD
edlabel/modify>
When you enter the start and length of a partition, you can use either
blocks or cylinder/track/sector notation. If this is the first time
you've partitioned a disk for NetBSD, it's probably easiest to use block
notation. The above example creates partition 'a', starting at block zero
and with a size of 38000 blocks. Note that the usual size of a block is
512 bytes, so this creates a 19Mb partition.
The 'type' of the partition should be "4.2BSD", otherwise you won't
be able to create a filesystem on it.
Next, create a swap partition (b). Note that the minimum size of this
swap partition should be 8Mb, otherwise you won't be able to use a
miniroot to complete the NetBSD installation!
--> edlabel/modify> b
b (swap) 0 (0/00/00) 0 (0/00/00) unused
--> start as <blkno> or <cyls/trks/sects> : 38000
--> length as <nblks> or <cyls/trks/sects> : 32768
--> type: swap
edlabel/modify>
Here, we specify a value for 'start' such that the swap partition follows
immediately after partition 'a', i.e. 38000. The length of the swap
partition should be a multiple of the amount of RAM you have in your
system. Here, I've chosen 32768, or 16Mb. The next available block on the
drive is thus 38000 + 32768. We will use this to create partition 'd' for
our /usr filesystem. (Note that for a busy system, or a system with more
than 8Mb of RAM, you'll be better off with a 32 or 64Mb swap partition.)
--> edlabel/modify> d
d (user) 0 (0/00/00) 0 (0/00/00) unused
--> start as <blkno> or <cyls/trks/sects> : 70768
--> length as <nblks> or <cyls/trks/sects> : 233837
--> type: 4.2BSD
--> edlabel/modify> q
edlabel>
As you can see, I've chosen to assign the remainder of the disk to /usr.
Since there are 304605 sectors on the example disk (did you remember to
note down the number of sectors on your disk during boot?), and partition
'd' starts at sector 70768, a simple bit of arithmetic (304605 - 70768)
gives 'd' a size of 233837.
You now need to write this new disklabel, together with the partition
details you've just entered, to disk. You might also try the 'p' command
to view the partitions. Once written, you can quit back to ssh using 'q'.
--> edlabel> p
type_num: 4
sub_type: 0
type_name: SCSI disk
pack_name: fictitious
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 35
tracks/cylinder: 9
cylinders: 967
sectors/cylinder: 315
partition start (c/t/s) nblks (c/t/s) type
a (root) 0 (0/00/00) 38000 (120/05/25)* 4.2BSD
b (swap) 38000 (120/05/25)* 32768 (104/00/08)* swap
c (disk) 0 (0/00/00) 304605 (967/00/00) unused
d (user) 70768 (224/05/33)* 233837 (742/03/02)* 4.2BSD
--> edlabel> w
--> edlabel> q
ssh:
Now that your disk's partitioned, you need to get the proper installation
miniroot image onto it. The miniroot image is designed to be copied into
the swap partition of your disk. This is a safe place which won't be
overwritten by the installation procedure. From the ssh prompt, use the
following commands to copy the miniroot image from tape to swap (b).
--> ssh: mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind
--> ssh: mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 3
--> ssh: dd bs=8k if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/rsd0b
The disk and the miniroot must now be made bootable using the
'installboot' command, To do this, issue the following commands:
--> ssh: mount /dev/sd0b /mnt
--> ssh: installboot /mnt/usr/mdec/bootsd /bootxx /dev/rsd0b
--> ssh: umount /dev/sd0b
You can now shutdown the system.
--> ssh: halt
signal 15
ssh: syncing disks... done
unmounting /mnt (/dev/sd1b)...
unmounting / (root_device)...
halted
--> 147-Bug>reset
--> Reset Local SCSI Bus [Y,N] N? y
--> Automatic reset of known SCSI Buses on RESET [Y,N] = Y?
--> Cold/Warm Reset flag [C,W] = C?
--> Execute Soft Reset [Y,N] N? y
You should now reboot from that just installed miniroot. See the section
entitled "Booting the miniroot" for details.
* Installing from NFS:
Before you can install from NFS, you must have already configured
your NFS server to support your machine as a bootable client.
Instructions for configuring the server are found in the section
entitled "Getting the NetBSD System onto Useful Media" above.
To get started, you need to download "sboot" into RAM (you will find
'sboot' in the "install" directory of the mvme68k distribution).
You can either do that through the console line or through a 2nd serial
connection. For example, a VME147 connected to a sun4/110 and accessed
via "tip" can be loaded as follows:
lo 0
~Ccat sboot
go 4000
Which will look like this:
--> 147-Bug>lo 0
--> ~CLocal command? cat sboot
away for 11 seconds
!
--> 147-Bug>g 4000
Effective address: 00004000
sboot: serial line bootstrap program (&end = 6018)
>>>
Now, if you want to do it through serial line 1, then connect serial
line one to a machine. At the "147-Bug> " prompt do this "tm 1".
You should then login to whatever machine it is connected to.
Then hit "^A" to escape to Bug. do "lo 1;x=cat sboot" ... then when
that is done you can reconnect "tm 1" and logout. Then do "go 4000"
and you've got ">>> " prompt of sboot.
Once you've got the ">>> " prompt, you can boot the RAMDISK kernel
from the server:
--> >>> b
le0: ethernet address: 8:0:3e:20:cb:87
My ip address is: 192.168.1.4
Server ip address is: 192.168.1.1
4800
Download was a success!
Start @ 0x8000 ...
>> BSD MVME147 netboot (via sboot) [$Revision: 1.1 $]
device: le0 attached to 08:00:3e:20:cb:87
boot: client IP address: 192.168.1.4
boot: client name: soapy
root addr=192.168.1.1 path=/export/soapy
578616+422344+55540+[46032+51284]=0x11a6e4
Start @ 0x8000 ...
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
NetBSD 1.3 (RAMDISK) #1: Sun Dec 21 16:19:04 GMT 1997
steve@soapy.mctavish.demon.co.uk:/usr/src/sys/arch/mvme68k/compile/RAMDISK
Motorola MVME-147S: 25MHz MC68030 CPU+MMU, MC68882 FPU
real mem = 7237632
avail mem = 6381568
using 88 buffers containing 360448 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
pcc0 at mainbus0: Peripheral Channel Controller, rev 0, vecbase 0x40
clock0 at pcc0 offset 0x0 ipl 5: Mostek MK48T02, 2048 bytes of NVRAM
.
.
After the boot program loads the RAMDISK kernel, you should see the
welcome screen as shown in the "tape boot" section above.
You now need to create a disklabel with partition information on the
SCSI disk on which you intend to create your root filesystem. Follow
the instructions in the previous section entitled "Installing from
tape" to do this. (But stop short of the part which describes how to
copy the miniroot from tape.)
You must now configure the network interface before you can access the
NFS server containing the miniroot image. For example the command:
--> ssh: ifconfig le0 inet 192.168.1.4 up
will bring up the network interface 'le0' with that address. The next
step is to copy the miniroot from your server. This can be done using
either NFS or remote shell. (In the examples that follow, the server has
IP address 192.168.1.1) You may then need to add a default route if the
server is on a different subnet:
--> ssh: route add default 192.168.1.2 1
You can look at the route table using:
--> ssh: route show
Now mount the NFS filesystem containing the miniroot image:
--> ssh: mount -r 192.168.1.1:/export/soapy /mnt
The procedure is simpler if you have space for an expanded (not
compressed) copy of the miniroot image. In that case:
--> ssh: dd bs=8k if=/mnt/miniroot of=/dev/rsd0b
Otherwise, you will need to use "zcat" to expand the miniroot image
while copying. This is tricky because the "ssh" program (small shell)
does not handle sh(1) pipeline syntax. Instead, you first run the reader
in the background with its input set to /dev/pipe and then run the other
program in the foreground with its output to /dev/pipe. The result looks
like this:
--> ssh: run -bg dd obs=8k if=/dev/pipe of=/dev/rsd0b
--> ssh: run -o /dev/pipe zcat /mnt/install/miniroot.gz
To load the miniroot using rsh to the server, you would use a pair
of commands similar to the above. Here is another example:
--> ssh: run -b dd obs=8k if=/dev/pipe of=/dev/rsd0b
--> ssh: run -o /dev/pipe rsh 192.168.1.1 zcat miniroot.gz
You must now make the disk bootable. Refer to the previous section on
installing from tape, where it describes how to run 'installboot'.
This is immediately following the part which explains how to copy the
miniroot from tape.
* Booting the miniroot:
Assuming the miniroot is installed on partition 'b' of the disk with
SCSI-id 0, then the 147Bug boot command is:
147-Bug> bo 0,,b:
The command line parameters above are:
0 controller (usually zero)
,, bug argument separators
b: tell the bootstrap code to boot from partition 'b'
You should see a bunch of boot messages, followed by messages from
the miniroot kernel just as you did when the RAMDISK kernel booted.
You will then be prompted to enter the root device. Since the miniroot
was booted from the swap partition, you should enter 'sd0b'. You will
then be asked for the swap device and filesystem type. Just press
return twice to accept the defaults. When asked to enter a terminal
type, either accept the default, or use whatever the TERM environment
variable is set to in the shell of your host system:
vmel0 at vmechip0
boot device: sd0
--> root device (default sd0a): sd0b
--> dump device (default sd0b):
--> file system (default generic):
root on sd0b dumps on sd0b
mountroot: trying ffs...
root file system type: ffs
init: copying out path `/sbin/init' 11
erase ^H, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C
--> Terminal type? [vt100]
Congratulations! The system should now be running the miniroot
installation program.
Miniroot install program:
------------------------
The miniroot's install program is very simple to use. It will guide
you through the entire process, and is well automated. Additional
improvements are planned for future releases.
The miniroot's install program will:
* Allow you to place disklabels on additional disks.
The disk we are installing on should already have
been partitioned using the RAMDISK kernel.
Note that partition sizes and offsets are expressed
in sectors. When you fill out the disklabel, you will
need to specify partition types and filesystem parameters.
If you're unsure what the these values should be, use the
following defaults:
fstype: 4.2BSD
fsize: 1024
bsize: 4096
cpg: 16
If the partition will be a swap partition, use the following:
fstype: swap
fsize: 0 (or blank)
bsize: 0 (or blank)
cpg: 0 (or blank)
Note that partition 'c' is special; it covers then entire
disk and should not be assigned to a filesystem.
The number of partitions is currently fixed at 8.
* Create filesystems on target partitions.
* Allow you to set up your system's network configuration.
Remember to specify host names without the domain name
appended to the end. For example use `foo' instead of
`foo.bar.org'. If, during the process of configuring
the network interfaces, you make a mistake, you will
be able to re-configure that interface by simply selecting
it for configuration again.
* Mount target filesystems. You will be given the opportunity
to manually edit the resulting /etc/fstab.
* Extract binary sets from the media of your choice.
* Copy configuration information gathered during the
installation process to your root filesystem.
* Make device nodes in your root filesystem.
* Copy a new kernel onto your root partition.
* Install a new boot block.
* Check your filesystems for integrity.
First-time installation on a system through a method other than the
installation program is possible, but strongly discouraged.

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This product includes software developed by the Computer
Systems Laboratory at the University of Utah.
This product includes software developed by the University of
Vermont and State Agricultural College and Garrett A. Wollman.
This product includes software developed by Charles D. Cranor.
This product includes software developed by Adam Glass.
This product includes software developed by Charles Hannum.
This product includes software developed by David Jones.
This product includes software developed by Gordon W. Ross.
This product includes software developed by Steve C. Woodford.

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mvme68k machines usually need little or no preparation before installing
NetBSD, other than the usual, well advised precaution of BACKING UP
ALL DATA on any attached storage devices.
The following instructions should make your machine "NetBSD Ready".
Power-up your VME147. You should have the "bug" prompt:
COLD Start
Onboard RAM start = $00000000, stop = $007FFFFF
147-Bug>
Make sure the value for "stop" looks ok (if you've got 8MB you should
have the same value as I do). Also make sure the clock is ticking:
147-Bug>time
Sunday 12/21/29 16:25:14
147-Bug>time
Sunday 12/21/29 16:25:15
147-Bug>
Note that NetBSD bases it's year at 1968, and adds the year offset in
the VME147's real-time clock to get the current year. So the '29' here
equates to 1997. You may have to adjust your clock using the 'set'
command to comply with NetBSD's requirements. Don't worry if the
"Day of the week" is not correct, NetBSD doesn't use it. (Actually,
Motorola have acknowledged a year 2000 bug whereby the day of the week
doesn't get set correctly by the 147Bug PROM. IT DOES NOT AFFECT NETBSD!)
Also make sure that your VME147's ethernet address is initialised to
the correct value. You'll find the address on a label on the inside of
the board's front panel. Enter the last five digits of the address
using the 'lsad' command.
To install successfully to a local SCSI disk, you need to ensure that
147Bug is aware of what targets are connected to the SCSI bus. This
can be done by issueing the following command:
--> 147-Bug> iot;t
At this point, 147Bug will scan for any attached SCSI devices. After
a short delay, a list of SCSI devices will be displayed. You will be
asked if Bug should assign LUNs to SCSI ids, to which you should
answer Y. You should also answer Y when asked if the information is
to be saved to NVRAM.
The following installation instructions will assume that your target
SCSI disk drive appears at SCSI-id 0. If you have a tape drive, the
instructions assume is is configured for SCSI-id 5. When the RAMDISK
root boots, NetBSD will refer to these devices as 'sd0' and 'rst0'
respectively. You may wish to note these down; you'll be using them
a lot. :-)

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It is possible to easily upgrade your existing NetBSD/mvme68k system
using the upgrade program in the miniroot. If you wish to upgrade
your system by this method, simply select the `upgrade' option once
the miniroot has booted. The upgrade program with then guide you
through the procedure. The upgrade program will:
* Enable the network based on your system's current
network configuration.
* Mount your existing filesystems.
* Extract binary sets from the media of your choice.
* Fixup your system's existing /etc/fstab, and if necessary,
changing the occurrences of `ufs' to `ffs' and let you
edit the resulting file.
* Make new device nodes in your root filesystem.
* Copy a new kernel onto your root partition.
NOTE: the existing kernel WILL NOT be backed up; doing
so would be pointless, since older kernels may not be
capable of running NetBSD _VER executables.
* Install a new boot block.
* Check your filesystems for integrity.
While using the miniroot's upgrade program is the preferred method
of upgrading your system, it is possible to upgrade your system
manually. To do this, follow the following procedure:
* Place _at least_ the `base' binary set in a filesystem
accessible to the target machine. A local filesystem
is preferred, since the NFS subsystem in the NetBSD _VER
kernel may be incompatible with your old binaries.
* Back up your pre-existing kernel and copy the _VER
kernel into your root partition.
* Reboot with the _VER kernel into single-user mode.
* Check all filesystems:
/sbin/fsck -pf
* Mount all local filesystems:
/sbin/mount -a -t nonfs
* If you keep /usr or /usr/share on an NFS server, you
will want to mount those filesystems as well. To do
this, you will need to enable the network:
sh /etc/netstart
* Run the update(8) daemon, to ensure that new programs
are actually stored on disk.
update
* Make sure you are in the root filesystem and extract
the `base' binary set:
cd /
tar --unlink -zxvpf /path/to/base.tgz
NOTE: the `--unlink' option is _very_ important!
* Delete system files in /sbin which now live in /usr/sbin:
cd /sbin
rm -f mountd rtquery quotacheck dumpfs dumplfs
* Install a new boot block (you may need to be running in
single-user mode to do this...):
cd /usr/mdec
cp bootsd /.bootsd
./installboot /.bootsd bootxx <root disk, e.g. /dev/rsd0a>
* Sync the filesystems:
sync
* At this point you may extract any other binary sets
you may have placed on local filesystems, or you may
wish to extract additional sets at a later time.
To extract these sets, use the following commands:
cd /
tar --unlink -zxvpf <path to set>
NOTE: you SHOULD NOT extract the `etc' set if upgrading. Instead, you
should extract that set into another area and carefully merge the changes
by hand.

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Installation is supported from several media types, including:
* Tape
* NFS
* CD-ROM
* FTP
Note that installing on a "bare" machine requires either a bootable
tape drive or an ethernet and RS232 connection to a compatible NFS server.
The procedure for transferring the distribution sets onto installation
media depends on the type of media. Instructions for each type of media
are given below.
In order to create installation media, you will need all the files in
these two directories:
.../NetBSD-_VER/mvme68k/install
.../NetBSD-_VER/mvme68k/binary
* Creating boot/install tapes:
Installing from tape is the simplest method of all. This method uses two
tapes, one containing a bootable ramdisk and miniroot, the other containing
the installation sets.
The boot tape is created as follows:
--> cd .../NetBSD-_VER/mvme68k/install
--> set T = /dev/nrst0
--> mt -f $T rewind
--> dd if=stboot of=$T
--> dd if=bootst of=$T obs=8k conv=osync
--> gzip -dc netbsd-rd.gz | dd of=$T obs=8k conv=osync
--> gzip -dc miniroot.gz | dd of=$T obs=8k conv=osync
--> mt -f $T rewind
The installation set tape is created as follows:
--> cd .../NetBSD-_VER/mvme68k/binary
--> set T = /dev/nrst0
--> mt -f $T rewind
--> foreach f (base etc comp games man misc text)
--> gzip -d < $f.tgz | dd of=$T bs=8k
--> end
--> mt -f $T rewind
If the tape does not work as expected, you may need to explicitly
set the EOF mark at the end of each tape segment. Consult the tape-
related manual pages on the system where the tapes are created for
more details.
* Boot/Install from NFS server:
If your machine has a disk and network connection, but no tape drive,
it may be convenient for you to install NetBSD over the network. This
involves temporarily booting your machine over NFS, just long enough
so you can initialize its disk. This method requires that you have
access to an NFS server on your network so you can configure it to
support diskless boot for your machine. Configuring the NFS server
is normally a task for a system administrator, and is not trivial.
If you are using a NetBSD system as the boot-server, have a look at
the diskless(8) manual page for guidelines on how to proceed with
this. If the server runs another operating system, consult the
documentation that came with it (i.e. add_client(8) on SunOS).
Booting a VME147 from ethernet is not possible without first downloading
a small bootstrap program (sboot) via RS232. See the section entitiled
"Installing from NFS" for details on how to accomplish this.
sboot expects to be able to download a second stage bootstrap
program via TFTP after having acquired its IP address through RARP
It will look for a filename derived from the machine's IP address
expressed in hexadecimal, with an extension of ".147". For example,
a VME147 with IP address 130.115.144.11 will make an TFTP request for
`8273900B.147'. Normally, this file is just a symbolic link to the
NetBSD/mvme68k "netboot" program, which should be located in a place
where the TFTP daemon can find it (remember, many TFTP daemons run in
a chroot'ed environment). The netboot program may be found in the
install directory of this distribution.
The netboot program will query a bootparamd server to find the NFS
server address and path name for its root, and then load a kernel from
that location. The server should have a copy of the netbsd-rd kernel in
the root area for your client (no other files are needed in the client
root, although it might be a convenient place to put the uncompressed
miniroot image) and /etc/bootparams on the server should have an entry
for your client and its root directory. Note that you should rename the
netbsd-rd kernel to just 'netbsd' in the client's root directory before
trying to netboot the client.
The client will need access to the miniroot image, which can be
provided using NFS or remote shell. If using NFS, miniroot.gz should be
expanded on the server, because doing so from the RAMDISK shell is not
so easy. The unzipped miniroot takes about 6Mb of space.
If you will be installing NetBSD on several clients, it may be useful
to know that you can use a single NFS root for all the clients as long
as they only use the netbsd-rd kernel. There will be no conflict
between clients because the RAM-disk kernel will not use the NFS root.
No swap file is needed; the RAM-disk kernel does not use that either.
* Install/Upgrade from CD-ROM:
This method requires that you boot from another device (i.e. tape
or network, as described above). You may need to make a boot tape
on another machine using the files provided on the CD-ROM. Once
you have booted netbsd-rd (the RAMDISK kernel) and loaded the
miniroot, you can load any of the distribution sets directly from
the CD-ROM. The "install" program in the miniroot automates the
work required to mount the CD-ROM and extract the files.
* Install/Upgrade via FTP:
This method requires that you boot from another device (i.e. tape
or network, as described above). You may need to make a boot tape
on another machine using the files in .../install (which you get
via FTP). Once you have booted netbsd-rd (the RAM-disk kernel)
and loaded the miniroot, you can load any of the distribution sets
over the net using FTP. The "install" program in the miniroot
automates the work required to configure the network interface and
transfer the files.
This method, of course, requires network access to an FTP server.
This might be a local system, or it might even be ftp.NetBSD.ORG
itself. If you wish to use ftp.NetBSD.ORG as your FTP file
server, you may want to keep the following information handy:
IP Address: ftp.NetBSD.ORG
Login: anonymous
Password: <your e-mail address>
Server path: /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-_VER/mvme68k/binary
Note: if you're not using a nameserver duing installation,
you might find 206.86.8.12 handy; it's the IP address of
ftp.NetBSD.ORG as of September 2, 1996.