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.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.23 2011/05/30 06:19:53 wiz Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS
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.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
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.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS
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.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
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.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
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.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
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.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
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.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
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.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
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.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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Installing
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.Nx
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is a relatively complex process, but if you have
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this document in hand it should not be too difficult.
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.Pp
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There are several ways to install
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.Nx
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onto your disk.
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If your
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.Tn MVME147
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machine has a tape drive the easiest way is
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.Sx "Installing from tape"
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(details below).
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All other machines can be installed easily over the network from a
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suitable NFS server.
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See
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.Sx "Installing from NFS"
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for details.
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Otherwise, if you have another \*M machine running
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.Nx
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you can
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initialize the disk on that machine and then move the disk.
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.
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.Ss2 Installing from tape
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.
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Create the
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.Nx*M
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\*V boot tape as described in the section
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entitled
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.Sx "Preparing a boot tape" .
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Then, with the tape in the drive, type the following at the Bug prompt:
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.Pp
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.Dl 147-Bug\*[Gt] Ic "bo 5"
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.Pp
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.Dl 16x-Bug\*[Gt] Ic "bo 0,50"
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.Pp
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As mentioned earlier, this assumes your tape is jumpered for SCSI-ID 5.
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.Pp
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As the tape loads (which may take 20 to 30 seconds), you will see a
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series of status messages.
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It may be useful if you can capture these
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messages to a file, or a scrollable xterm window.
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In particular, you should make a note of the lines which describe the
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geometry of the SCSI disks detected by
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.Nx .
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They are of the form:
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.(disp
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sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: \*[Lt]Maker, Disk, Foo\*[Gt] SCSI1 0/direct fixed
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sd0: 800 MB, 800 cyl, 16 head, 128 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1638400 sectors
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.disp)
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.Pp
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The information of most interest is the number of sectors; for the fictitious
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disk above, it's 1638400.
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You will need this number when you come to create a disklabel for that drive.
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.Pp
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Here is an example of an MVME147 system booting from tape:
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.(disp
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RAM address from VMEbus = $00000000
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Booting from: VME147, Controller 5, Device 0
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Loading: Operating System
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Volume: NBSD
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IPL loaded at: $003F0000
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\*[Gt]\*[Gt] BSD MVME147 tapeboot [$Revision: 1.23 $]
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578616+422344+55540+[46032+51284]=0x11a6e4
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Start @ 0x8000 ...
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Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
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The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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NetBSD 1.5 (RAMDISK) #1: Sun Oct 29 16:19:04 GMT 2000
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steve@fatbob:/usr/src/sys/arch/mvme68k/compile/RAMDISK
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Motorola MVME-147S: 25MHz MC68030 CPU+MMU, MC68882 FPU
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real mem = 7237632
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avail mem = 6381568
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using 88 buffers containing 360448 bytes of memory
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mainbus0 (root)
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pcc0 at mainbus0: Peripheral Channel Controller, rev 0, vecbase 0x40
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clock0 at pcc0 offset 0x0 ipl 5: Mostek MK48T02, 2048 bytes of NVRAM
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\&.
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\&.
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.disp)
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.Pp
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.(Note
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The exact text of the messages will vary depending on which
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\*M
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variant you're using.
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.Note)
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.Pp
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Finally, you will see the following "welcome" message:
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.(disp
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Welcome to the NetBSD/\*M RAMDISK root!
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This environment is designed to do only four things:
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1: Partition your disk (use the command: disklabel -i -I /dev/rsd0c)
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2: Copy a miniroot image into the swap partition (/dev/rsd0b)
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3: Make that partition bootable (using 'installboot')
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4: Reboot (using the swap partition, i.e. /dev/sd0b).
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Copying the miniroot can be done several ways, allowing the source
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of the miniroot image to be on any of these:
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boot tape, NFS server, TFTP server, rsh server
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The easiest is loading from tape, which is done as follows:
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mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind
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mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 3
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dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/rsd0b bs=8k conv=sync
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(For help with other methods, please see the install notes.)
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To reboot using the swap partition after running installboot, first
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use
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.Ic halt ,
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then at the Bug monitor prompt use a command like:
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1x7Bug\*[Gt] bo 0,,b:
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To view this message again, type: cat /.welcome
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#
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.disp)
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.Pp
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You must now create a disklabel on the disk you wish to use for the
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root file system
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.Pq Pa / .
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This will usually be
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.Li sd0 .
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The disklabel is used by
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NetBSD to identify the starting block and size of each partition on
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the disk.
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.Pp
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Partitions are named
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.Li sd0a ,
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.Li sd0b ,
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.Li sd0c ,
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etc,
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up to
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.Li sd0h .
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The \*M port of
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.Nx
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makes some assumptions about the first three partitions on a boot disk:
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.Pp
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.(tag sd0c -compact
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.It Li sd0a
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The root file system
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.Pq Pa / .
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.It Li sd0b
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The swap partition.
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.It Li sd0c
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The whole disk.
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Also known as the
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.Em raw partition .
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.tag)
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.Pp
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The
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.Em raw partition No is special;
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.Nx
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is able to use it even if the
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disk has no label.
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You should never create a file system on the Raw Partition,
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even on a non-boot disk.
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.Pp
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It is good practice to put
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.Pa /usr
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on a different partition than
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.Pa /
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(root, AKA
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.Li sd0a ) .
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So, the first available partition for
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.Pa /usr
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is
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.Li sd0d .
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Refer to the section entitled
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.Sx NetBSD System Requirements and Supported Devices
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for information on the recommended sizes of the
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.Pa /
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(root),
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.Pa /usr
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and swap partitions.
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.Pp
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You are not required to define any partitions beyond
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.Li sd0d ,
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but if you
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have a large disk drive, you might want to create several other partitions
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for file systems such as
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.Pa /home
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or
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.Pa /usr/src .
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Note that at this time you
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are only required to partition the root/boot disk; you will get the
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opportunity to partition any other disks in your system from the main
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.Ic miniroot
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installation program.
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.Pp
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To create the disklabel and partitions, use the
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.Li disklabel
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program, passing it the name of the Raw Partition of your root/boot disk.
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.Pp
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.Dl # Ic "disklabel -i -I /dev/rsd0c"
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.Dl important disklabel -i options:
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.Dl ? - short help on all commands
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.Dl P - print current partition table
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.Dl W - write the current partition table
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.Dl Q - quit
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.Dl [a-p] - define named partition
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.Pp
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To start creating the basic partitions, you should enter
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.Ic a
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at the partition\*[Gt] prompt.
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.Li disklabel
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will then prompt for the partition information in a form similar to:
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.Pp
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.Dl partition> Ic a
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.Dl Filesystem type [?] [unused]: Ic 4.2BSD
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.Dl Start offset ('x' to start after part 'x') [0c, 0s, 0M]:
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.Dl Partition size ('$' for all remaining) [0c, 0s, 0M]: Ic 32m
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.Pp
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When you enter the start and length of a partition, you can append
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s, c, m, or g to specify sectors, cylinders, megabytes or gigabytes
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respectively.
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.Pp
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The above example creates partition
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.Sq Li a ,
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starting at sector zero
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and with a size of 32MB.
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.Pp
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The
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.Li type
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of the partition should be
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.Li 4.2BSD ,
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which is the recommended
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.Nx
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file system type.
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.Pp
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Next, create a swap partition (b).
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Note that the minimum size of this swap partition should be 8 MB,
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otherwise you won't be able to use a miniroot to complete the
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.Nx
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installation!
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.Pp
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.Dl partition> Ic b
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.Dl Filesystem type [?] [unused]: Ic swap
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.Dl Start offset ('x' to start after part 'x') [0c, 0s, 0M]: Ic a
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.Dl Partition size ('$' for all remaining) [0c, 0s, 0M]: Ic 16m
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.Pp
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Here, we specify that the swap partition starts immediatedly after the
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.Sq Li a
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partition and is of size 16MB.
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The length of the swap partition should be at least as large as the
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amount of RAM in your system and ideally 64MB or over.
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The remainder of the disk can be allocated to the
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.Sq Li d
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partition for the
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.Pa /usr
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file system.
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.Pp
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.Dl partition> Ic d
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.Dl Filesystem type [?] [unused]: Ic 4.2BSD
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.Dl Start offset ('x' to start after part 'x') [0c, 0s, 0M]: Ic b
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.Dl Partition size ('$' for all remaining) [0c, 0s, 0M]: Ic $
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.Pp
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Note that the above partition sizes are just guidelines.
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If your disk is large enough, you should resize the partitions
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appropriately and perhaps also create a /var partition as well.
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.Pp
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You now need to write this new disklabel, together with the partition
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details you've just entered, to disk.
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You might also try the
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.Sq Ic P
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command
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to view the partitions.
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Once written, you can quit back to the shell using
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.Sq Ic Q .
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.Pp
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Now that your disk's partitioned, you need to get the proper installation
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miniroot image onto it.
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The miniroot image is designed to be copied into
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the swap partition of your disk.
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This is a safe place which won't be overwritten by the installation procedure.
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From the shell prompt, use the
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following commands to copy the miniroot image from tape to swap (b).
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.Pp
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.Dl # Ic "mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind"
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.Dl # Ic "mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 3"
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.Dl # Ic "dd if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/rsd0b bs=8k conv=osync"
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.Pp
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The disk and the miniroot must now be made bootable using the
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.Xr installboot 8
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command.
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To do this, issue the following commands:
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.Pp
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.Dl # Ic "mount /dev/sd0b /mnt"
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.Dl # Ic "installboot /mnt/usr/mdec/bootsd /bootxx /dev/rsd0b"
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.Dl # Ic "umount /dev/sd0b"
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.Pp
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You can now shutdown the system.
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.Pp
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.Dl # Ic halt
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.Dl signal 15
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.Dl syncing disks... done
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.Dl unmounting / (root_device)...
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.Dl halted
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.Pp
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.Dl 147-Bug\*[Gt] Ic reset
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.Dl Reset Local SCSI Bus [Y,N] N? Ic y
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.Dl Automatic reset of known SCSI Buses on RESET [Y,N] Y?
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.Dl Cold/Warm Reset flag [C,W] = C?
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.Dl Execute Soft Reset [Y,N] N? Ic y
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.Pp
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Resetting the other types of MVME boards are very similar.
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You should now reboot from that just installed miniroot.
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See the section entitled
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.Sx "Booting the miniroot"
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for details.
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.
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.Ss2 Installing from NFS
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.
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Before you can install from NFS, you must have already configured
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your NFS server to support your machine as a bootable client.
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Instructions for configuring the server are found in the section
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entitled
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.Sx Getting the NetBSD System onto Useful Media
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above.
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.Pp
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To get started on the MVME147, you need to download
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.Pa sboot
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into RAM (you will find
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.Ic sboot
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in the
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.Pa install
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directory of the \*M distribution).
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You can either do that through the console line or through a 2nd serial
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connection.
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For example, an MVME147 connected to a sun4/110 and accessed via
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.Xr tip 1
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can be loaded as follows:
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.Pp
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.(disp
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lo 0
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~Ccat sboot
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go 4000
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.disp)
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.Pp
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Which will look like this:
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.Pp
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.Dl 147-Bug\*[Gt] Ic "lo 0"
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.Dl ~CLocal command? Ic "cat sboot"
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.Pp
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.Em away for 11 seconds
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.Pp
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.Dl !
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.Pp
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.Dl 147-Bug\*[Gt] Ic "g 4000"
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.Dl Effective address: 00004000
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.Pp
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.Dl sboot: serial line bootstrap program (end = 6018)
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.Pp
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.Dl \*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Gt]
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.Pp
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Now, if you want to do it through serial line 1, then connect serial
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line one to a machine.
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At the
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.Li 147-Bug\*[Gt] No prompt type Ic \&tm 1
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You should then login to the machine it is connected to.
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Then press
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.Key CONTROL-A
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to escape to Bug.
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Do
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.Ic lo 1;x=cat sboot Em ...
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then when that is done you can reconnect
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.Ic tm 1 No and logout.
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.No Then do Ic go 4000
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and you've got the
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.Li "\*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Gt] "
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prompt of
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.Ic sboot .
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.Pp
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Once you've got the
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.Li "\*[Gt]\*[Gt\*[Gt] "
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prompt, you can boot the
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.Li RAMDISK
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kernel from the server:
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.Pp
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.Dl \*[Gt]\*[Gt]\*[Gt] Ic b
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.Pp
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.(disp
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le0: ethernet address: 8:0:3e:20:cb:87
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My ip address is: 192.168.1.4
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Server ip address is: 192.168.1.1
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4800
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Download was a success!
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.disp)
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.Pp
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See below for the next step in booting MVME147.
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.Pp
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The MVME162, MVME167, MVME172 and MVME177 boards are able to download netboot
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directly using TFTP.
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To enable this, you must first configure the networking parameters
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on the board as described in the section entitled "Preparing your System
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for
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.Nx
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Installation.
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On a properly configured MVME162/172 or MVME167/177, all you need to type is:
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.Pp
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.Dl 1xx-Bug\*[Gt] Ic nbo
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.Pp
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For all board types, the boot messages are very similar:
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.Pp
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.(disp
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Start @ 0x8000 ...
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\*[Gt]\*[Gt] BSD MVME147 netboot (via sboot) [$Revision: 1.23 $]
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device: le0 attached to 08:00:3e:20:cb:87
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boot: client IP address: 192.168.1.4
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boot: client name: soapy
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root addr=192.168.1.1 path=/export/soapy
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578616+422344+55540+[46032+51284]=0x11a6e4
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Start @ 0x8000 ...
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Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
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The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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NetBSD 1.5 (RAMDISK) #1: Sun Oct 29 16:19:04 GMT 2000
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steve@fatbob:/usr/src/sys/arch/mvme68k/compile/RAMDISK
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Motorola MVME-147S: 25MHz MC68030 CPU+MMU, MC68882 FPU
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real mem = 7237632
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avail mem = 6381568
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using 88 buffers containing 360448 bytes of memory
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mainbus0 (root)
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pcc0 at mainbus0: Peripheral Channel Controller, rev 0, vecbase 0x40
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clock0 at pcc0 offset 0x0 ipl 5: Mostek MK48T02, 2048 bytes of NVRAM
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\&.
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\&.
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.disp)
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.Pp
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After the boot program loads the
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.Li RAMDISK
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kernel, you should see the
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welcome screen as shown in the "tape boot" section above.
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.Pp
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You now need to create a disklabel with partition information on the
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SCSI disk on which you intend to create your root file system
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.Pq Pa / .
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Follow the instructions in the previous section entitled
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.Sx "Installing from tape"
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to do this.
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(But stop short of the part which describes how to
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copy the miniroot from tape.)
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.Pp
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You must now configure the network interface before you can access the
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NFS server containing the miniroot image.
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For example the command:
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.Pp
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.Dl # Ic "ifconfig le0 inet 192.168.1.4 up"
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.Pp
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will bring up the MVME147 network interface
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.Li le0
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with that address.
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The command:
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.Pp
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.Dl # Ic "ifconfig ie0 inet 192.168.1.4 up"
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.Pp
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will bring up the MVME162/172 or MVME167/177 network interface
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.Li ie0
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with that address.
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The next
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step is to copy the miniroot from your server.
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This can be done using either NFS or remote shell.
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(In the examples that follow, the server has
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IP address 192.168.1.1) You may then need to add a default route if the
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server is on a different subnet:
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.Pp
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.Dl # Ic "route add default 192.168.1.2 1"
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.Pp
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You can look at the route table using:
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.Pp
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.Dl # Ic "route show"
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.Pp
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Now mount the NFS file system containing the miniroot image:
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.Pp
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.Dl # Ic "mount -r 192.168.1.1:/export/soapy /mnt"
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.Pp
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The procedure is simpler if you have space for an expanded (not
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compressed) copy of the miniroot image.
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In that case:
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.Pp
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.Dl # Ic "dd if=/mnt/miniroot of=/dev/rsd0b bs=8k"
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.Pp
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Otherwise, you will need to use
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.Ic gzcat
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to expand the miniroot image while copying.
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.Pp
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.Dl # Ic gzcat miniroot.fs.gz | dd of=/dev/rsd0b obs=8k conv=osync
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.Pp
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You must now make the disk bootable.
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Refer to the previous section on
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installing from tape, where it describes how to run
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.Ic installboot .
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This is immediately following the part which explains how to copy the
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miniroot from tape.
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.
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.Ss2 Booting the miniroot
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.
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Assuming the miniroot is installed on partition
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.Sq Li b
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of the disk with
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SCSI-ID 0, then the boot command is:
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.Pp
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.Dl 1xx-Bug\*[Gt] Ic "bo 0,,b:"
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.Pp
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The command line parameters above are:
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.Pp
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|
.(tag xxx
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.It Ic 0
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controller (usually zero)
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.It Ic ,,
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bug argument separators
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.It Ic \&b:\&
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tell the bootstrap code to boot from partition
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|
.Li b
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|
.tag)
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.Pp
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|
You should see a bunch of boot messages, followed by messages from
|
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the miniroot kernel just as you did when the
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.Li RAMDISK
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kernel booted.
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.Pp
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|
You will then be prompted to enter the root device.
|
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Since the miniroot was booted from the swap partition, you should enter
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.Li sd0b .
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You will
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then be asked for the swap device and file system type.
|
|
Just press
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|
.Key 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:
|
|
.Pp
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|
.Dl boot device: sd0
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.Dl root device (default sd0a): Ic sd0b
|
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.Dl dump device (default sd0b): Em (return)
|
|
.Dl file system (default generic): Em (return)
|
|
.Dl root on sd0b dumps on sd0b
|
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.Dl mountroot: trying ffs...
|
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.Dl root file system type: ffs
|
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.Dl init: copying out path `/sbin/init' 11
|
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.Dl erase ^H, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C
|
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.Dl Terminal type? [vt100] Em return
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Congratulations!
|
|
The system should now be running the miniroot installation program.
|
|
.
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|
.Ss2 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.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
All recent releases of NetBSD provide the option of using
|
|
.Ic sysinst
|
|
instead of the old installation and upgrade shell scripts.
|
|
At this time,
|
|
.Ic sysinst
|
|
is not capable of installing distribution sets from tape.
|
|
In such a case, you should fallback to the shell script installation
|
|
or upgrade procedure.
|
|
In all other cases,
|
|
.Ic sysinst
|
|
should be used.
|
|
Note that as soon as
|
|
.Ic sysinst
|
|
can deal with tapes, the shell script tools will be removed.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The miniroot's install program (both
|
|
.Ic sysinst
|
|
and the shell script version) will:
|
|
.(bullet
|
|
Allow you to place disklabels on additional disks.
|
|
The disk we are installing on should already have
|
|
been partitioned using the
|
|
.Li RAMDISK
|
|
kernel.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Note that partition sizes and offsets are expressed
|
|
in sectors.
|
|
When you fill out the disklabel, you will need to specify partition
|
|
types and file system parameters.
|
|
If you're unsure what these values should be, use the
|
|
following defaults:
|
|
.(disp
|
|
fstype: 4.2BSD
|
|
fsize: 1024
|
|
bsize: 4096
|
|
cpg: 16
|
|
.disp)
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If the partition will be a swap partition, use the following:
|
|
.(disp
|
|
fstype: swap
|
|
fsize: 0 (or blank)
|
|
bsize: 0 (or blank)
|
|
cpg: 0 (or blank)
|
|
.disp)
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Note that partition
|
|
.Sq Li c
|
|
is special; it covers then entire
|
|
disk and should not be assigned to a file system.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
The number of partitions is currently fixed at 8.
|
|
.It
|
|
Create file systems on target partitions.
|
|
.It
|
|
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
|
|
.Li foo
|
|
instead of
|
|
.Li 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.
|
|
.It
|
|
Mount target file systems.
|
|
You will be given the opportunity to manually edit the resulting
|
|
.Pa /etc/fstab .
|
|
.It
|
|
Extract binary sets from the media of your choice.
|
|
.It
|
|
Copy configuration information gathered during the
|
|
installation process to your root file system
|
|
.Pq Pa / .
|
|
.It
|
|
Make device nodes in your root file system under
|
|
.Pa /dev .
|
|
.It
|
|
Copy a new kernel onto your root partition
|
|
.Pq Pa / .
|
|
.It
|
|
Install a new boot block.
|
|
.It
|
|
Check your file systems for integrity.
|
|
.bullet)
|
|
.Pp
|
|
First-time installation on a system through a method other than the
|
|
installation program is possible, but strongly discouraged.
|
|
.
|
|
.so ../common/sysinst
|