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Describe all six ways of loading the installer.

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.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.14 1999/01/13 07:30:02 ross Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.15 1999/03/25 21:13:04 ross Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
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.Pp
The usual procedure is to write the installation system to a floppy
disk set and then boot from the floppies, however, there
are now five ways to boot the NetBSD/alpha installation system! Each way
are now six ways to boot the NetBSD/alpha installation system! Each approach
loads the exact same installation bits.
The five paths are:
The six paths are:
.Pp
.
.Bl -enum -compact
.Bl -enum -compact -offset indent
.It
Floppy disk boot
.It
CD boot
.It
Magnetic tape boot
Hard Drive Boot
.It
Initialized hard drive boot
Magnetic Tape Boot
.It
Existing Root FS Boot
.It
Network boot
.El
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.It
Hard Drive boot
.It
Tape Boot
Magnetic Tape Boot
.Pp
All three of these media types use the same initial image:
.Dl \&.../installation/diskimage/cdhdtape
@ -157,7 +159,22 @@ The use of CD-R devices varies greatly depending on the host OS
and host software; it isn't possible to give typical instructions here.
.Pp
.It
Network Boots
Existing Root FS Boot
.Pp
The installation subdirectory
.Pa instkernel/
contains
.Pa netbsd.gz ;
this is the same install kernel but without a bootable filesystem
image wrapped around it. You can perform an complete reinstall
by beginning it as an upgrade, and booting this kernel in the
normal way off the root file system of a previous installation.
.Pp
The gzipped image can be booted directly; it is not necessary to
uncompress it first.
.Pp
.It
Network Boot
.Pp
Booting NetBSD/alpha \*V over a network requires a BOOTP or
DHCP server, a TFTP server and an NFS server. (These are usually
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.Li instkernel
image from the distribution.
.Pp
The gzipped image can be booted directly; it is not necessary to
uncompress it first.
.Pp
The console will be using TFTP to load the NetBSD boot program,
so for the TFTP setup, you need to copy the second stage bootstrap,
.Ic netboot ,