$NetBSD: install,v 1.16 1998/10/07 16:34:12 chopps Exp $ Installing NetBSD is a relatively complex process, but, if you have this document in hand and are careful to read and remember the information which is presented to you by the install program, it shouldn't be too much trouble. Before you begin, you must have already prepared your hard disk as detailed in the section on preparing your system for install. The following is a walk-through of the steps necessary to get NetBSD installed on your hard disk. If you wish to stop the installation, you may hit Control-C at any prompt, but if you do, you'll have to begin again from scratch. Transfer the miniroot file system onto the hard disk partition used by NetBSD for swapping, as described in the "Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" section above. * Booting from AmigaOS, using loadbsd: You then need to have "ixemul.library" in your LIBS: directory on AmigaDOS. You also need to have the "loadbsd" program in your command path. If AmigaDOS complains about loadbsd not being an executable file, be sure that the "Execute" protection bit is set. If not, set it with the command: Protect loadbsd add e Next you need to get yourself into NetBSD by loading the kernel from AmigaDOS with loadbsd like so: loadbsd -b netbsd If you have an AGA machine, and your monitor will handle the dblNTSC mode, you may also include the "-A" option to enable the dblNTSC display mode. If your machine has a fragmented physical memory space, as, e.g., DraCo machines, you should add the "-n2" option to enable the use of all memory segments. * Directly booting NetBSD, with boot blocks installed: [This description is for V40 (OS 3.1) ROMs. For older ROMs, there might be small differences. Check your AmigaOS documentation to learn about the exact procedure.] [XXX should note someplace that using bootblocks may not work on some systems, and may require a mountable filesystem on others?] Reboot your machine, holding down both mouse buttons if you have a 2-button mouse, the outer mouse buttons if you have a 3-button mouse. On the DraCo, press the left mouse button instead, when the boot screen prompts you for it. From the boot menu, select "Boot Options". Select the swap partition with the miniroot, and then "ok". Select "Boot" now. The machine will boot the bootblock, which will prompt your for a command line. You have a few seconds time to change the default. Entering an empty line will accept the default. The bootblock uses command lines of the form: file options where file is the kernel file name on the partition where the boot block is on, and options are the same as with loadbsd. E.g., instead of "loadbsd -bsSn2 netbsd" use "netbsd -bsSn2". * Once your kernel boots: You should see the screen clear and some information about your system as the kernel configures the hardware. Note which hard disk device(s) are configured (sd0, sd1, etc). Then you will be prompted for a root device. At this time type 'sd0b', where 'sd0' is the device which contains the swap partition you created during the hard disk preparation. When prompted for a dump device, answer 'none' for the install (normally, you would tell it one of the swap devices). When prompted for the root filesystem type, confirm 'generic', which will auto-detect it. If the system should hang after entering the root device, try again with loadbsd -I ff -b netbsd This disables synchronous transfer on all SCSI devices. The system should continue to boot. For now ignore WARNING: messages about bad dates in clocks, and a warning about /etc/rc not existing. Eventually you will be be asked to enter the pathname of the shell, just hit return. After a short while, you will be asked to select the type of your keyboard. After you have entered a valid response here, the system asks you if you want to install or upgrade your system. Since you are reading the 'install' section, 'i' would be the proper response here... The installer starts with a nice welcome messages. Read this message carefully, it also informs you of the risks involved in continuing! If you still want to go on, type 'y'. The installer now continues by trying to figure out your disk configuration. When it is done, you will be prompted to select a root device from the list of disks it has found. You should know at this point that the disks are NOT numbered according to their scsi-id! The NetBSD kernel numbers the scsi drives (and other devices on the scsi bus) sequentially as it finds them. The drive with the lowest scsi id will be called sd0, the next one sd1, etc. Also, any Amiga internal IDE disk drives will be configured as "SCSI" drives, and will be configured before any 'real' SCSI drives (if any are present). YOU ARE NOW AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN. If you confirm that you want to install NetBSD, your hard drive will be modified, and perhaps its contents scrambled at the whim of the install program. Type Control-C NOW if you don't want this. At this time, you will need to tell the installer which partition will be associated with the different filesystems. The install program will now make the the file systems you specified. There should be only one error per file system in this section of the installation. It will look like this: newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument newfs: /dev/rsd0a: can't rewrite disk label If there are any others, restart from the the beginning of the installation process. This error is ok as the Amiga does not write disklabels currently. You should expect this error whenever using newfs. The install will now ask you want to configure any network information. It ill ask for the machine's host name, domain name, and other network configuration information. Since the network configuration might have lead to additional (nfs) filesystem entries, you get another chance to modify your fstab. You are finally at the point where some real data will be put on your freshly made filesystems. Select the device type you wish to install from and off you go.... Some notes: - If you want to install from tape, please read the section about how to create such a tape. - Some tapes (e.g. Archive Viper 150) refuse to operate with the default tape density ("nrst0"). Try "nrst0h", "nrst0m", or "nrst0l" instead. - Install at least the base and etc sets. - If you have to specify a path relative to the mount-point and you need the mount-point itself, enter '.'. Next you will be asked to specify the timezone. Just select the timezone you are in. The installer will make the correct setup on your root filesystem. After the timezone-link is installed, the installer will proceed by creating the device nodes on your root filesystem. Be patient, this will take a while... Finally, the installer ask you if you want to install the bootblock code on your root disk. This is a matter of personal choice and can also be done from a running NetBSD system. See the 'installboot(8)' manual page about how to do this. Once the installer is done, halt the system with the "halt" command (wait for "halted" to be displayed) and reboot. Then again boot NetBSD this time with the command: loadbsd netbsd or select the root partition from the boot menu, and tell it to boot netbsd -s You need to do your final tweaks now. First mount your file systems like so: mount -av Your system is now complete but not completely configured; you should adjust the /etc/sendmail.cf file as necessary to suit your site. You should also examine and adjust the settings in /etc/rc.conf. You can use vi or ed to edit the files. If you installed the man pages you can type `man vi' or `man ed' for instructions on how to use these somewhat non-intuitive editors. Once you are done with the rest of configuration unmount your file systems and halt your system, then reboot: cd / umount -av halt Finally you can now boot your system and it will be completely functional: loadbsd -a netbsd When it boots off of the hard drive, you will have a complete NetBSD system! CONGRATULATIONS! (You really deserve them!!!)