(IF you already have NetBSD/pc532 installed and you only want to update your system, see the next section.) To install NetBSD/pc532, there are several things you need to know. First, NetBSD "autoconfigs" the scsi devices. inst-12.fs has only support for disks configured into the kernel. Starting the search at SCSI address 0, lun 0 and increasing, the first disk found will be sd0 regardless of the address, the second will be sd1. KLONDIKE for example has the following devices installed: sd0 -> ID 0 LUN 0: Quantum LP52S hard disk drive sd1 -> ID 1 LUN 0: Micropolis 4110 hard disk drive sd2 -> ID 2 LUN 0: Teac FC-1, 3.5" floppy disk drive sd3 -> ID 2 LUN 1: Teac FC-1, 5.25" floppy disk drive cd0 -> ID 3 LUN 0: Toshiba XM-4101TA CD-ROM drive st0 -> ID 4 LUN 0: Tandberg TDC3600 QIC tape drive Only sd0-sd3 are supported by the inst-12.fs kernel. Next you need to know what the install script wants to do. This install is script on the ram disk root that can do most of the work of configuring your disk. a) The script assumes your are using the first n sectors of your disk, where you can specify n. It will allow you to create up to 5 file system partitions, one swap partition and one boot partition. b) You should know how many total sectors are on your disk. The configure will report a head, track, and cylinder count, but I have found that on my disks, it reports something that makes a smaller disk than I really had. c) It is possible to have the install script make a partition over your save area AND not make a new file system, thus preserving what is there. Then, later you can make a new file system after you no longer need the stuff there. You will need to do only one boot to get things working from the disk. The Install Procedure: a) Adjust your console device settings. The inst-12.fs kernel will come up with 9600 baud, 7 bits, even parity and one stop bit. Adjust your terminal to match these settings. The monitor's baud rate can be changed with "baud d'9600". b) Get inst-12.fs and boot the kernel. From Floppy: (and using the autoboot monitor) If you have a 1.44 meg SCSI floppy drive, you can put inst-12.fs onto a 3.5" floppy disk. Insert the disk into your floppy drive and use the monitor's boot command to boot the default image from the floppy. The image booted will ask you for a kernel to load. Answer sdXa:/netbsd Replace X with your drive number. For KLONDIKE X would be "2". Tape: You will need to load a copy of inst-12.fs into RAM. - load the inst-12.fs at 0x288000 - run at 0x3E8820 The boot program will ask you now for a kernel to load. Answer rd0a:/netbsd Serial line: Provided with the distribution is source for program called download. (download.c) This program when used as "download file" will read the contents of the file and output to standard output a byte sequence used by the pc532 ROM monitor to download a binary file into RAM. Using this program on a computer connected to the pc532, one can load a copy of inst-12.fs into RAM at 0x288000. The boot sequence is now the same as with tape. c) Choose a disk geometry. For me, the reported geometry left some sectors "unallocated". That is, the autoconfig message said the disk had 2428 cylinders, 9 heads, and 93 sectors/track. This gives a total of 2032236 sectors, but I knew that I had 2053880 sectors. To help in this process, there is a program "factor" that is on the inst-12.fs. The usage is "factor number" and it lists the prime factors of number. For example, with the 2053880 sector disk I got: ---->~/sd1 steelhead[3]$ factor 2053880 2053880: 2 2 2 5 51347 Not many to choose from, so I tried ... ---->~/sd1 steelhead[4]$ factor 2053820 2053820: 2 2 5 103 997 Now I'd like to get about a meg per track: steelhead[5]$ echo "2 * 997"|bc 1994 Now I need the number of tracks (or cylinders): steelhead[5]$ echo "2 * 5 * 103"|bc 1030 So I ended up choosing 1030 cylinders, 1 head, 1994 sectors/track. I "lost" only 60 sectors, but got a "resonable geometry". d) run "install" -- it will ask you for the disk geometry and other questions. It will ask you for the geometry and then ask you how many of those sectors you want to use for NetBSD. It also wants to know the size of your boot partition (to be used with the auto-boot monitor), your root partition, your swap partition, and then any other partitions you may want. For the "other" partitions, it will ask for a mount point. The mount point will be "relative to /" and should not include the leading "/". Also, IF you do not want the partition to have newfs run on it (that is it might be the last one and have a copy of inst-12.fs) enter "NO" to the mount point and it will not run newfs on the partition. It will enter the partition into the disklabel. e) look around, if you want ... and then halt NetBSD. f) reboot the machine. Using the autoboot monitor, all you should have to do is give the ROM monitor command "boot". The secondary UFS boot program eventually times out and auto-loads /netbsd. You can get it to do it faster by hitting "return". (If you are not using the autoboot monitor, you will have to figure out the starting sector of the boot images partition and manually load the NetBSD boot loader from the disk using the read command. If you would rather use the autoboot monitor you can get source and ROM images from the URL ftp://ftp.cs.wwu.edu/pub/pc532/mon.auto.tar.gz.) g) Now it is time to load all the other files of the distribution: You can do this via -- a) a TCP/IP link (slip, ppp or plip) you have ifconfig, slattach, route, netstat, hostname and ftp on the mini-root. You can even use nfs... Plip is only an option if you have installed a centronics port in your pc532. You do have access to vi to edit your network files. (/etc/resolv.conf, ...) b) floppy disk c) tape d) cd-rom (If you have a CD with NetBSD/532, which most likely won't happen for a while after 1.2 release.) -- mount -rt cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt Get the tar.gz files from the cd-rom e) Use the ROM compatable "download" program. The program download is included in the initial installation and can be used as the receive end of the download by using it as "download -r file_to_write". If the CRC is correct, the file is retained. If the CRC is not correct, the file is deleted. f) some other method? (Let me know about it.) h) Load the tar.gz files. Choose a place to put them. I would make a directory /gz.files and put them there. If you are "short on space," you might want to load them and extract them one at a time. A minimum installation is "base" and "etc". It takes about 32 Megs installed + 15 Megs for the base.tar.gz. i) Extract the tar files in /. For example, if your *.tar.gz were in a directory /gz.files, to extract base.tar.gz you would: - cd / - tar -xpzf /gz.files/base.tar.gz --unlink Add v to the flags if you want a verbose extract. The --unlink is to make sure that the install versions of sh, init, ... are replaced by their proper versons in base.tar.gz. I think it is wise to include the --unlink for other things. j) Extract at least "base" and "etc" for a new installation. For "update" extracts, don't extract "etc" directly unless you have saved your current /etc tree. For "full" installations, extract all files. k) Edit the information in /etc - hosts - host name and address information - myname - your host name - mygate - hostname of gateway (assuming you have one) - resolv.conf - which nameserver to use - hostname.{sl0,ppp0,plip0} - interface hostname - netstart - configures the network and says if sendmail should be started - ttys - make sure the console entry has the correct speed - gettytab - I find "ap" instead of "ep" in the default entry works better for me. - fstab - make sure it includes all partitions you want mounted - localtime - this is usually a link into /usr/share/zoneinfo Now you can adjust the kernel's default baud rate to match your monitor's default baud rate. Do the following: gdb -w /netbsd set scndefaultrate = YOUR_BAUD_RATE quit where YOUR_BAUD_RATE is the actual value, 19200, 38400 or something slower than 9600. If you set scndefaultrate to something bogus, you'll probably not be able to reboot... So be carefull! l) Reboot the machine and it should come up in multi-user mode *IF* you got it configured correctly. m) Enjoy! And help fix bugs and improve NetBSD/pc532!