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154 lines
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.\" $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.15 1999/05/05 18:47:40 is Exp $
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Installation is supported from several media types, including:
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AmigaDOS HD partitions
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Tape
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NFS partitions
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FTP
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NetBSD partitions, if doing an upgrade.
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CD-ROM (SCSI or ATAPI)
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The miniroot file system needs to be transferred to the NetBSD swap
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partition. This can be done from AmigaDOS in the case of a new
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install or upgrade, or from NetBSD when doing an upgrade. See the
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"Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" section for details.
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The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
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for installation depend on which method of installation
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you choose. The various methods are explained below.
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To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition:
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To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to
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get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install
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on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition. All of the
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set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory
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instead of separate ones for each distribution set. This
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will also simplify the installation work later on.
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Note where you place the files you will need this later.
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
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step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
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To prepare for installing from CD-ROM:
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To install NetBSD from a CD-ROM drive, make sure it is a SCSI
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CD-ROM on a SCSI bus currently supported by NetBSD (refer to the
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supported hardware list) or an ATAPI cd-rom connected to the A1200
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or A4000 internal IDE connector. If it is a
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SCSI CD-ROM on a non-supported SCSI bus like
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Blizzard-3 SCSI, Apollo SCSI) you must first copy the distribution
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sets to an AmigaDOS partition like described above.
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If your SCSI CD-ROM is connected to a supported SCSI host adapter,
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or it is an ATAPI cd-rom connected to the A1200/A4000 internal IDE connector,
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simply put the CD into the drive before installation.
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
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step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
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To prepare for installing via a tape:
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To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow
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get the NetBSD file sets you wish to install on
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your system on to the appropriate kind of tape.
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If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest
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way to do so is:
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dd if=\*<first file\*> of=\*<tape device\*>
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dd if=\*<2nd file\*> of=\*<tape device\*>
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\&...
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where "\*<tape_device\*>" is the name of the non-rewinding tape
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device that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly
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something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-).
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If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.
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"\*<files\*>" are the names of the "set_name.tgz" files
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which you want to be placed on the tape.
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If you have a slow cpu (e.g. 68030 @ 25 MHz) on the target
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machine, but big tapes, you might want to store the
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uncompressed installation sets instead. This will help tape
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streaming when doing the actual installation. E.g, do:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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gzip -d -c \*<first file\*> | dd of=\*<tape device\*>
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gzip -d -c \*<2nd file\*> | dd of=\*<tape device\*>
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\&...
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
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step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
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To prepare for installing via an NFS partition:
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this method of installation is recommended
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only for those already familiar with using
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the BSD network-manipulation commands and
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interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation
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should help, but is not intended to be
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all-encompassing.
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.tag)
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Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into
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a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory
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mountable by the machine which you will be installing
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NetBSD on. This will probably require modifying the
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/etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting
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mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges.
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Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of
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the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine,
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if the NFS server is not on a network which is
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directly attached to the NetBSD machine.
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
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step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
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To prepare for installing via FTP:
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.(tag Em Note:
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this method of installation is recommended
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only for those already familiar with using
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the BSD network-manipulation commands and
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interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation
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should help, but is not intended to be
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all-encompassing.
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.tag)
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The preparations for this method of installation
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are easy: all you have to do is make sure that
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there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve
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the NetBSD installation when it's time to do
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the install. You should know the numeric IP
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address of that site, the numeric IP address of
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your nearest router if one is necessary
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
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step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
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If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing
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NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing
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file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the
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following:
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Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in
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your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must
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upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the
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"base" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish,
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you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade
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the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system
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configuration files that you should review and update by hand.
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in
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the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system.
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