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$NetBSD: xfer,v 1.4 1998/07/05 13:59:25 ross Exp $
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Installation is supported from several media types, including:
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FTP
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Remote NFS partition
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CD-ROM
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No matter which installation medium you choose, you'll need to have
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either a 1.44 MB floppy disk (if your Alpha has a floppy drive to
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boot from) or you'll have to set up a server with BOOTP, TFTP and
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NFS to boot from as described later in this document.
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If you are using a UN*X-like system to write the floppy images to
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disks, you should use the "dd" command to copy the file system
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image ("floppy-144" file) directly to the raw floppy disk. It is
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suggested that you read the dd(1) manual page or ask your system
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administrator to determine the correct set of arguments to use; it
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will be slightly different from system to system, and a comprehensive
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list of the possibilities is beyond the scope of this document. The
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command will look something like "dd if=floppy-144 bs=18k of=/dev/rfd0a".
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If you are using DOS to create the boot floppy, you should use the
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"rawrite" utility provided in the "i386/utilities" directory of
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the NetBSD distribution to write the file system image ("floppy-144"
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file) to a floppy.
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Note that, when installing or upgrading, the floppy can be
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write-protected if you wish. These systems mount ramdisks as their
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root file systems once booted, and will not need to write to the
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floppy itself at any time -- indeed, once booted, the floppy may be
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removed from the disk drive.
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Obviously, the steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
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for installation depend on which installation medium you choose.
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The steps for the various media are outlined below.
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To install NetBSD using NFS to get the installation sets, you must
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do the following:
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Place the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install into a
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directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable
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by the machine on which you are installing or upgrading NetBSD.
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This will probably require modifying the /etc/exports file on
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of the NFS server and resetting its mount daemon (mountd).
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(Both of these actions will probably require superuser
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privileges on the server.)
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You need to know the the numeric IP address of the NFS server,
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and, if the server is not on a network directly connected to
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the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD,
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you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest
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to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric
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IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. The install
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program will ask you to provide this information to be able
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to access the sets.
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Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the
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information mentioned above, you can start the actual
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installation process.
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To install NetBSD by using FTP to get the installation sets, you
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must do the following:
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The preparations for this installation method are easy;
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all you make sure that there's some FTP site from which
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you can retrieve the NetBSD distribution when you're about
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to install. You need to know the numeric IP address of that
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site, and, if it's not on a network directly connected to
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the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD,
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you need to know the numeric IP address of the router
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closest to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know
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the numeric IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. The
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install program will ask you to provide this information
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to be able to access the sets via ftp.
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Once you have this information, you can proceed to the actual
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installation.
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To install NetBSD by using a CD-ROM to get the installation sets,
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you must do the following:
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Have a CD-ROM with the installation sets on it, and a CD-ROM
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drive on your machine.
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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. Please note that the /dev on
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the floppy used for upgrades only knows about wd0, wd1, sd0,
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sd1 and sd2. If you have more than two IDE drives or more than
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three SCSI drives, you should take care not to place the sets
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on the high numbered drives.
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At a bare minimum, you must upgrade the "base" and "kern"
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binary distribution, and so must put the "base" and
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"kern" sets 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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