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The installation can be broken down into three basic steps:
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* Run Mkfs to build a filesystem or filesystems.
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* Run the Installer to load the files onto your filesystems.
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* Run the Booter to boot the system.
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**** Preparing the filesystem(s)
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Double-click on the Mkfs application icon to start it up. It will ask
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you for the SCSI ID of the drive that you are installing upon. Once
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this is selected, it will present a list of the partitions on that disk.
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You must first convert the partitions to a type which NetBSD can
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understand. Select each partition on which you wish to build a filesystem
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and click on the "Change" button. If you are placing the entire
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installation on a single partition, select the "NetBSD Root&Usr" radio
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button. If you are using multiple partitions, select "NetBSD Root" for
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the root partition and "NetBSD Usr" for all the other partitions. You
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should select "NetBSD Swap" for the swap partition.
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When you have finished converting each partition, select each partition
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and click on the "Format" button. You will now be asked for a bunch of
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parameters for the hard drive and the filesystem. Usually, you can just
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take the defaults. If you are installing onto removable media (e.g. a
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Zip, Jaz, or Syquest), please see the FAQ. Note that although this
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dialog only has the "OK" button, you are not committed, yet. Once you
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get the values you want, press the "OK" button. A dialog will be
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presented at this point with two options: "Format" and "Cancel." If you
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choose "Cancel," nothing will be written to your drive. If you choose
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"Format," the program will proceed to make a filesystem.
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Mkfs is not a well-behaved Macintosh application. It will not allow
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any other tasks to run while it does (cooperative multitasking at its
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best). When it's finished, the program will put up a dialog to ask if
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you have scanned the output for any error messages. Usually there won't
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have been any errors, but do scan the output to make sure. Simply click
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on the "I Read It" button and the program will quit.
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Repeat as necessary for any extra partitions that you wish to make
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filesystems on. Note that you do _not_ need a filesystem on your swap
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partition.
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When you are finished, click on the "Done" button and choose "Quit" from
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the "File" menu to exit Mkfs.
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**** Installing the files
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Before using the Installer, it is probably a good idea to increase its
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memory allocation. Select the Installer icon by clicking on it and
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choose "Get Info" from the File menu. Increase both the Minimum and
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Preferred sizes to as much as you can spare.
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Double-click on the Installer icon to start it up. The Installer
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will present the same SCSI ID menu that Mkfs did. Select the same SCSI
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ID that you did for mkfs--i.e., the one you are installing onto.
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If you are installing onto a single root partition, proceed to the
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"Installation of base files" section, below.
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If you have not created filesystems for the root, usr, and
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any other filesystems, go back to "Preparing the filesystem(s),"
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above.
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When you started the Installer, it mounted your root partition.
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Just before it printed, "Mounting partition 'A' as /," it printed
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lines like:
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sd1 at scsi ID 5.
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This means that the device for scsi ID 5 is sd1. The partitions
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are signified by a trailing letter. For instance, sd1a would be
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the root partition of the second scsi disk in the chain, and sd0g
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would be the first usr partition on the first scsi disk.
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You will need to know the proper device to mount the remaining
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partition(s) by hand:
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* Select "Build Devices" from the "File" menu.
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* Select "Mini Shell" from the "File" menu.
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* You can use the 'disklabel' command to get a listing of
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the available partitions and their types and sizes.
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* Mount the filesystems you wish with the command:
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mount device path
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For example, if you wish to mount a usr partition from
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the first scsi disk, sd0, on /usr, you would type:
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mount /dev/sd0g /usr
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* Type "fstab force" to create a proper /etc/fstab file
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* Type "quit" after you have mounted all the filesystems.
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Installation of base files:
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Select the "Install" menu item from the "File" menu and install
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base13, etc13, netbsd13, and any other packages you wish to install
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at this time (see the contents section for information about what's
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in each package). The Installer will print out the filename of
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each file as it is installed, and will take quite some time to
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install everything (the base package alone can take over an hour
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on a slow hard drive).
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As is the case with Mkfs, this is not a particularly well-behaved
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Macintosh application and the machine will be completely tied up
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while the installation takes place.
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At some point after installing the base package, select the "Build
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Devices" option from the "File" menu if you have not already done so.
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This will create a bunch of device nodes for you and will create your
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initial /etc/fstab. The Installer program also has an option to give
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you a mini-shell. Do not use this unless you are sure know what you
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are doing.
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When you are finished installing all of the packages you wish to
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install, exit the Installer by choosing "Quit" from the "File" menu.
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**** Booting the system
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Prior to attempting to boot NetBSD/mac68k, please verify that all of
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the following are true:
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1) 32-bit addressing is enabled[*] in the Memory control panel;
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2) All forms of virtual memory are disabled (the Memory control
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panel, RAM Doubler, or other software-based memory enhancement
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products); and
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3) Your system is in B&W mode (1-bit color or grayscale) as shown
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by the Monitors control panel. You may choose to have the
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Booter do this for you automatically by selecting the appropriate
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check box and radio button in the "Monitors" dialog on the
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"Options" menu.
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You may have to restart your Macintosh for changes to take effect before
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proceding.
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[* NOTE: If you have an older II-class system (including the II, IIx, IIcx,
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and SE/30), it is necessary to install Connectix's MODE32 to work around
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ROM issues which prevent you from enabling 32-bit addressing. Please see
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<http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/> for more information.]
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Double-click on the NetBSD/mac68k Booter icon to start the application.
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Select "Booting" from the "Options" menu. Check that all of the items in
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the resulting dialog look sane--especially the SCSI ID. If not, correct
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them to your preference (the SCSI ID should be the only thing you need to
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change). When you are satisfied with your choices, try booting NetBSD by
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selecting "Boot Now" from the "Options" menu.
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If you wish to save your preferences, choose "Save Options" from the
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"File" menu, then quit the application and restart it. Due to a
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long-standing bug, the preferences will not be saved unless you quit and
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restart the Booter.
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If the system does not come up, send mail to scottr@netbsd.org describing
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your software, your hardware, and as complete a description of the
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problem as you can.
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If the system does come up, congratulations, you have successfully
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installed NetBSD _VER. When you reboot into NetBSD, you should log
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in as "root" at the login prompt. There is no initial password, but
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if you're using the machine in a networked environment, you should
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create yourself an account and protect it and the "root" account with
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good passwords.
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Some of the files in the NetBSD _VER distribution might need to be
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tailored for your site. In particular, the /etc/sendmail.cf file will
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almost definitely need to be adjusted, and other files in /etc will
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probably need to be modified, as well. If you are unfamiliar with
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UN*X-like system administration, it's recommended that you buy a book
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that discusses it.
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