.\" $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.14 1999/04/11 15:12:49 is Exp $ .Pp Installation is supported from several media types, including: .Bl -bullet .It AmigaDOS HD partitions .It Tape .It NFS partitions .It FTP .It NetBSD partitions, if doing an upgrade. .It CD-ROM (but only SCSI CD-ROM) .El .Pp The miniroot file system needs to be transferred to the NetBSD swap partition. This can be done from AmigaDOS in the case of a new install or upgrade, or from NetBSD when doing an upgrade. See the "Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" section for details. .Pp The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for installation depend on which method of installation you choose. The various methods are explained below. .Bl -bullet .It To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition: .Pp To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition. All of the set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory instead of separate ones for each distribution set. This will also simplify the installation work later on. .Pp Note where you place the files you will need this later. .Pp Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. .It To prepare for installing from CD-ROM: .Pp To install NetBSD from a CD-ROM drive, make sure it is a SCSI CD-ROM on a SCSI bus currently supported by NetBSD (refer to the supported hardware list). If it is an ATAPI CD-ROM, or a SCSI CD-ROM on a non-supported SCSI bus like Blizzard-3 SCSI, Apollo SCSI) you must first copy the distribution sets to an AmigaDOS partition like described above. .Pp If your SCSI CD-ROM is connected to a supported SCSI host adapter, simply put the CD into the drive before installation. .Pp Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. .It To prepare for installing via a tape: .Pp To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow get the NetBSD file sets you wish to install on your system on to the appropriate kind of tape. .Pp If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest way to do so is: .Bd -literal -offset indent dd if=\* of=\* dd if=\*<2nd file\*> of=\* \&... .Ed .Pp where "\*" is the name of the non-rewinding tape device that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-). If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator. "\*" are the names of the "set_name.tgz" files which you want to be placed on the tape. .Pp If you have a slow cpu (e.g. 68030 @ 25 MHz) on the target machine, but big tapes, you might want to store the uncompressed installation sets instead. This will help tape streaming when doing the actual installation. E.g, do: .Bd -literal -offset indent gzip -d -c \* | dd of=\* gzip -d -c \*<2nd file\*> | dd of=\* \&... .Ed Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. .It To prepare for installing via an NFS partition: .(tag Em Note: this method of installation is recommended only for those already familiar with using the BSD network-manipulation commands and interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation should help, but is not intended to be all-encompassing. .tag) .Pp Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable by the machine which you will be installing NetBSD on. This will probably require modifying the /etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges. Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine, if the NFS server is not on a network which is directly attached to the NetBSD machine. .Pp Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. .It To prepare for installing via FTP: .(tag Em Note: this method of installation is recommended only for those already familiar with using the BSD network-manipulation commands and interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation should help, but is not intended to be all-encompassing. .tag) .Pp The preparations for this method of installation are easy: all you have to do is make sure that there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve the NetBSD installation when it's time to do the install. You should know the numeric IP address of that site, the numeric IP address of your nearest router if one is necessary .Pp Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. .It If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the following: .Pp Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the "base" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system configuration files that you should review and update by hand. .Pp Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. .El