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.\" $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.20 2001/07/30 13:44:04 jdolecek Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2001 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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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the NetBSD
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.\" Foundation, Inc. and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its
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.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
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.\" from this software without specific prior written permission.
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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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.
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.\" ---------- MD instructions on setting up boot media
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.
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.if r_arm32 \{\
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You will need to have an installation kernel and possibly a boot application.
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See
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.Pa arm32/ Ns Ar platform Ns Pa /prep
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for details.
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.Pp
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.\} \" r_arm32
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.
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.if r_i386 \{\
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If you are not booting off a CD-ROM, you will need to have some floppy
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disks to boot off;
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either two 1.44 MB floppies or one 1.2 MB floppy.
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.Pp
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For laptops that have cardbus slots, you should use the
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.Pa bootlap1.fs
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and
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.Pa bootlap2.fs
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floppy images.
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.Pp
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For older machines with little RAM, use
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.Pa boot-tiny.fs .
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This image is tailored towards old, small-memory systems, and thus does
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not contain any PCI or SCSI support. It should work on systems with
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4M of RAM. Note that this means 4M available to NetBSD; systems that
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are said to have 4M may have 640k of base memory and 3072k of extended
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memory, which currently will not work, as this is a total of 3712k.
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.Pp
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For old machines that may have EISA, SCSI and more RAM, but only
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have an 1.2M floppy drive, use
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.Pa boot-small.fs .
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.Pp
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For old IBM PS/2 machines with MCA, use
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.Pa boot-ps2.fs .
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.Pp
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For all other systems, use
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.Pa boot1.fs
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and
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.Pa boot2.fs
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.
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.Pp
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For the 2-floppy sets (and the CD boot image), utilities to repair
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a badly crashed systems are included. The -small and -tiny images
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have separate rescue floppy images because of lack of space.
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.Pp
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If you are using a
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.Ul
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system to write the floppy images to
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disks, you should use the
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.Xr dd
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command to copy the file system image(s)
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(.fs file) directly to the raw floppy disk.
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It is suggested that you read the
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.Xr dd 1
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manual page or ask your system administrator to determine the correct
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set of arguments to use; it will be slightly different from system to
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system, and a comprehensive list of the possibilities is beyond the
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scope of this document.
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.Pp
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If you are using
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.Tn MS-DOS
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to write the floppy image(s) to floppy disk, you should use the
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.Ic rawrite
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utility, provided in the
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.Pa i386/utilities
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directory of the
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.Nx
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distribution.
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It will write a file system image (.fs file) to a floppy disk.
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A
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.Ic rawrite32
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is also available that runs under
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.Tn MS Windows .
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.Pp
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.\} \" r_i386
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.
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.if r_macppc \{\
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You should wait to decide where to put the
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.Nx
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distribution sets until you have figured out how you are going to boot
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your system. Refer back to this section after you have done so.
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.Pp
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.(Note
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Some
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.Tn MacOS
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.Ic ftp
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clients default to downloading files in
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.Sq ASCII
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mode. This will render the
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.Nx
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files useless. Make sure to set your ftp program to download in
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.Sq binary
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mode.
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.Note)
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.Pp
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.\} \" r_macppc
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.
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.if r_news68k \{\
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.(Note
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.Nx*M
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\*V does not support any framebuffers (yet) so
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you have to use serial console on installation procedure.
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.Note)
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.Pp
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You will need to have a 1.44 MB floppy disk to boot off.
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You must put the boot floppy image onto this disk, which contains
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software to install
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.Nx
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system.
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.Pp
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If you are using a
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.Ul
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system (such as
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.Tn NEWS-OS
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or other
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.Nx
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machines) to write the floppy images to disks, you should use the
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.Xr dd 1
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command to copy the file system image(s)
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(.fs file(s)) directly to the raw floppy disk.
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It is suggested that you read the
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.Xr dd 1
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manual page or ask your system administrator to determine the correct
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set of arguments to use; it will be slightly different from system to
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system, and a comprehensive list of the possibilities is beyond the
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scope of this document.
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.Pp
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If you have an i386 machine which runs
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.Tn MS-DOS
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and use them to write the floppy image(s) to floppy disk,
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you can use the
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.Ic rawrite
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utility, provided in the
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.Pa i386/installation/misc
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directory of the
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.Nx
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distribution.
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It will write a file system image (.fs file) to a floppy disk.
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A
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.Ic rawrite32
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is also available that runs under
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.Tn MS Windows .
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.Pp
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Though
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.Nx*M
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uses the floppy disk to boot for the initial
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installation, the
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.Nx*M
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kernel does not support the
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floppy device.
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Some other machines or systems are still required to write floppy images
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even after
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.Nx*M
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has been installed.
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.Pp
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SCSI devices on NWS-12x0 machines are not supported (yet), so they
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can only run
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.Nx*M
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diskless.
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No file transfer is needed, and all you have to do is to prepare files on
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the server.
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More information about diskless setting can be found at
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.Lk http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
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.Pp
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The
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.Tn NEWS
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PROM also supports tape boot and network boot, but
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.Nx*M
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does not support them currently.
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.Pp
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After the boot floppy is prepared, just type
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.Ic "bo fh"
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on the PROM prompt to boot it.
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.Pp
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.\} \" r_news68k
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.
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.if r_pmax \{\
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First-time installation on a bare machine is not supported, because most
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DECstations do not have any suitable load device.
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Some versions of the DECstation PROM are buggy and will not boot via
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.Tn TFTP
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and bootp; other versions are buggy and do not boot via
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.Tn MOP .
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.Pp
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The only DECstation with a floppy-disk drive is the Personal DECstation,
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and that device is not supported as a boot device.
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.Pp
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The recommended installation procedure is to boot an install kernel
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via
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.Tn TFTP ,
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or to use a
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.Dq helper
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system to write a miniroot diskimage onto a disk, move that
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disk to the target installation system, and then boot the miniroot.
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.Pp
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.\} \" r_pmax
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.
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.if r_vax \{\
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Installing on a
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.Sq bare
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machine requires some bootable
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device; either a tape or floppy drive or a NFS server together
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with a machine that can act as a MOP loader, such as another
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machine running
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.Nx .
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.Nx*M
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can use both BOOTP/DHCP and
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BOOTPARAMS for netboot installations.
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.Pp
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.\} \" r_vax
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.
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.if r_x68k \{\
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You will have to prepare the `ramdisk-root' installation system.
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There are two ways to invoke the
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.Nx
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installation system;
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.Pp
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.(bullet -compact -offset indent
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Use
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.Pa loadbsd.x
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utility to boot
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.Nx
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from
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.Tn Human68k
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.It
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Make a boot floppy which contains the installation system
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.bullet)
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.Pp
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When you chose the first method, you have to put the installation kernel
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.Pa netbsd
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and the
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.Pa loadbsd.x
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utility to a disk accessible from Human68k. These files can be found in
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.Pa installation/misc
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directory of the
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.Nx
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distribution.
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.Pp
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To invoke the installation system, just type
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.Pp
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.Dl Ic "loadbsd.x netbsd"
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.Pp
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from the
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.Tn Human68k
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command line.
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.Pp
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When you chose the second method, you have to make the boot floppy
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from the floppy image
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.Pa sysinst.fs .
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The image file can be found in
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.Pa installation/floppy
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directory of the
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.Nx
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distribution.
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.Pp
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If you are using a
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.Ul
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system to write the floppy image to
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disks, you should use the
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.Pa dd
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command to copy the file system images (.fs files) directly to the raw
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floppy disks. It is suggested that you read the
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.Xr dd 1
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manual page or
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ask your system administrator to determine the correct set of
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arguments to use; it will be slightly different from system to system,
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and a comprehensive list of the possibilities is beyond the scope of
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this document.
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.Pp
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If you are using
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.Tn Human68k
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to write the floppy images to disks, you should use the
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.Ic rawrite
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utility, provided in the
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.Pa installation/misc
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directory of the
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.Nx
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distribution. It will write the file system
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images (.fs files) to disks.
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.Pp
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To use the boot floppy, insert the floppy to your floppy drive 0,
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and reboot your computer with OPT.1 key pressed.
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.Pp
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If you have less than 5MB of memory, you have to use the
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`floppy-root' installation system instead of the above
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`ramdisk-root' installation system. `Floppy-root' installation
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system is composed of two floppies, `kern' and `inst'. They are
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made from the floppy images
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.Pa kern.fs
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and
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.Pa inst.fs
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respectively, both of which are found in
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.Pa installation/floppy
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directory of the
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.Nx
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distribution. See above how to write the images to floppies.
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.Pp
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To start the `floppy-root' installation system, insert the `kern' floppy
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to your floppy drive 0, and reboot your computer with OPT.1 key pressed.
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When you are prompted that `Insert filesystem floppy and press return.',
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replace the `kern' floppy with `inst' floppy and press return key.
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.Pp
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Once booted, the `floppy-root' installation system is identical with
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the `ramdisk-root' installation system, except that the former constantly
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accesses the floppy disk. Floppy disks are relatively unreliable
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media and cause some warning messages to report access errors, most of
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which are corrected and can be ignored. With the latter installation
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system the floppy disk is not used once the system has booted off and can
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be removed from the drive.
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.Pp
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.\} \" r_x68k
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.
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.ig
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XXXX
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.\" THIS IS NOT APPLICABLE TO X68K!
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Note that if you are installing or upgrading from a writable media,
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the media can be write-protected if you wish.
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These systems mount a root image from inside the kernel, and will not
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need to write to the media.
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If you booted from a floppy, the floppy disk may be removed from
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the drive after the system has booted.
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XXXX
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..
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.
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.\" --------- MI instructions for getting distribution off installation medium
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.
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Installation is supported from several media types, including:
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.Pp
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.(bullet -offset indent -compact
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.
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.if r_amiga \{\
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.Tn AmigaDOS
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.It
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.\} \" r_amiga
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.
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CD-ROM
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.
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.if !\n[news68k]:\n[macppc]:\n[pmax]:\n[vax]:\n[x68k] \{\
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.It
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.Tn MS-DOS No floppy
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.\} \" ! \n[news68k]:\n[macppc]:\n[pmax]:\n[vax]:\n[x68k]
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.
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.It
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FTP
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.
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.if \n[x68k] \{\
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.It
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Magneto-Optical (M-O) or other removable SCSI disk
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.\} \" \n[x68k]
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.
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.It
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Remote NFS partition
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.
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.if !\n[macppc]:\n[news68k] \{\
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.It
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Tape
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.\} \" ! \n[macppc]:\n[news68k]
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.
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.if !\n[macppc]:\n[news68k] \{\
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.It
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Existing
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.Nx
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partitions, if performing an upgrade
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.\} \" ! \n[macppc]:\n[news68k]
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.
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.bullet)
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.Pp
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.
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The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for installation
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depend upon which installation medium you choose.
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The steps for the various media are outlined below.
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.
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.(tag MS-DOS\ floppy
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.
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.if r_amiga \{\
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.It Em AmigaDOS partition
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To install
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.Nx
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from an
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.Tn AmigaDOS
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partition, you need to get the
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.Nx
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distribution sets you wish to install on your system on to an
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.Tn AmigaDOS
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partition.
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All of the
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.Pa set_name.xx
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pieces can be placed in a single directory instead of separate ones for each
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distribution set.
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This will also simplify the installation work later on.
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.Pp
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Note where you place the files as you will need this later.
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.Pp
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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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.\} \" r_amiga
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.
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.It Em CD-ROM
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.if r_amiga \{\
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To install
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.Nx
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from a CD-ROM drive, make sure it is a SCSI CD-ROM on a SCSI bus currently
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supported by
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.Nx
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(refer to the supported hardware list) or an ATAPI cd-rom connected to the
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A1200 or A4000 internal IDE connector.
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If it is a SCSI CD-ROM on a non-supported SCSI bus like Blizzard-3 SCSI
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or Apollo SCSI you must first copy the distribution sets to an
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.Tn AmigaDOS
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partition as described above.
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.Pp
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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
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connector, simply put the CD into the drive before installation.
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.Pp
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.\} \" r_amiga
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Find out where the distribution set files are on the CD-ROM.
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.Pp
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Proceed to the instruction on installation.
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.
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.if !\n[news68k]:\n[macppc]:\n[pmax]:\n[vax]:\n[x68k] \{\
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.It Em MS-DOS floppy
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Count the number of
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.Pa set_name. Ns Ar xx
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files that make up the
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distribution sets you want to install or upgrade.
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.ie r_i386 \{\
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You will need one fifth that number of 1.2 MB floppies, or one sixth that
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number of 1.44 MB floppies.
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You should only use one size of floppy for the install or upgrade
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procedure; you can't use some 1.2 MB floppies and some 1.44 MB floppies.
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.\} \" r_i386
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.el \{\
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You will need one sixth that number of 1.44 MB floppies.
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\} \" ! r_i386
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.Pp
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Format all of the floppies with
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.Tn MS-DOS .
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Do
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.Em not
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make any of them bootable
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.Tn MS-DOS
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floppies, i.e. don't use
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.Li format /s
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to format them.
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(If the floppies are bootable, then the
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.Tn MS-DOS
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system files that make them bootable will take up some space, and you
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won't be able to fit the distribution set parts on the disks.)
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If you're using floppies that are formatted for
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.Tn MS-DOS
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by their manufacturers, they probably aren't bootable, and you can use
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them out of the box.
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.Pp
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Place all of the
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.Pa "set_name." Ns Ar xx
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files on the
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.Tn MS-DOS
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disks.
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.Pp
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Once you have the files on
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.Tn MS-DOS
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disks, you can proceed to the next step in the installation or upgrade process.
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If you're installing
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.Nx
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from scratch, go to the section on preparing your hard disk, below.
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If you're upgrading an existing installation, go directly to the
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section on upgrading.
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.\} \" ! \n[news68k]:\n[macppc]:\n[pmax]:\n[vax]:\n[x68k]
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.
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.It Em FTP
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The preparations for this installation/upgrade method are
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easy; all you need to do is make sure that there's an FTP
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site from which you can retrieve the
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.Nx
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distribution when you're about to
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install or upgrade.
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You need to know the numeric IP address of that site, and,
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if it's not on a network directly connected to the machine
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on which you're installing or upgrading
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.Nx ,
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you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest
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to the
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.Nx
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machine.
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Finally, you need to know the numeric IP address of the
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.Nx
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machine itself.
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If you don't have access to a functioning nameserver during
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|
installation, the IP address of
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.Sy ftp.netbsd.org
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|
is
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.Li 204.152.184.75
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(as of April, 2001).
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.Pp
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|
Once you have this information, you can proceed to the next
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|
step in the installation or upgrade process.
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If you're installing
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.Nx
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|
from scratch, go to the section on preparing your hard disk, below.
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If you're upgrading an existing installation, go directly to
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|
the section on upgrading.
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.(Note
|
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This method of installation is recommended only for those already familiar
|
|
with using
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.Bx
|
|
network configuration and management commands.
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If you aren't, this documentation should help, but is not intended to
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be all-encompassing.
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.Note)
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.
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.if \n[x68k] \{\
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.It Em M-O disk
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To install
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.Nx
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|
from a device such as a removable SCSI disk or a magneto-optical disk,
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the media
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.Em must
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|
be of the
|
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.Tn IBM
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.Em Super-floppy
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|
format.
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The
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.Tn Human68k
|
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format is not recognized by this release of the
|
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.Nx*M .
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If you have a
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.Tn MS-DOS
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or
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.Tn MS Windows
|
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machine with an M-O drive connected, use it.
|
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If you don't, and if you have a program to handle
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.Tn IBM
|
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format M-O for
|
|
.Tn Human68k ,
|
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copy all the files in the subdirectory
|
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.Pa x68k/binaries
|
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and
|
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.Em "change their names to upper case".
|
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.\} \" \n[x68k]
|
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.
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.It Em NFS
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Place the
|
|
.Nx
|
|
distribution sets you wish to install into a
|
|
directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable
|
|
by the machine on which you are installing or upgrading
|
|
.Nx .
|
|
This will probably require modifying the
|
|
.Pa /etc/exports
|
|
file on of the NFS server and resetting its mount daemon (mountd).
|
|
(Both of these actions will probably require superuser
|
|
privileges on the server.)
|
|
.Pp
|
|
You need to know the numeric IP address of the NFS server,
|
|
and, if the server is not on a network directly connected to
|
|
the machine on which you're installing or upgrading
|
|
.Nx ,
|
|
you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest
|
|
to the
|
|
.Nx
|
|
machine.
|
|
Finally, you need to know the numeric IP address of the
|
|
.Nx
|
|
machine itself.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the
|
|
information mentioned above, you can proceed to the next step
|
|
in the installation or upgrade process.
|
|
If you're installing
|
|
.Nx
|
|
from scratch, go to the section on preparing your hard disk, below.
|
|
If you're upgrading an existing installation, go directly to the
|
|
section on upgrading.
|
|
.(Note
|
|
This method of installation is recommended only for those already
|
|
familiar with using
|
|
.Bx
|
|
network configuration and management commands.
|
|
If you aren't, this documentation should help, but is not intended to
|
|
be all-encompassing.
|
|
.Note)
|
|
.
|
|
.if !\n[macppc]:\n[news68k]:\n[i386]:\n[i386] \{\
|
|
.It Em Tape
|
|
To install
|
|
.Nx
|
|
from a tape, you need to make a tape that
|
|
contains the distribution set files, in
|
|
.Sq tar
|
|
format.
|
|
.if \n[pmax]:\n[vax] \{\
|
|
.(Note
|
|
the tape devices with which
|
|
.Nx*M
|
|
is believed to work is the
|
|
.Tn DEC
|
|
TK-50. This is a very slow device. Installation via disk or network is
|
|
recommended if at all possible.
|
|
.Note)
|
|
.\} \" \n[pmax]:\n[vax]
|
|
.Pp
|
|
If you're making the tape on a
|
|
.Ul
|
|
system, the easiest way
|
|
to do so is probably something like:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl # Ic "tar -cf" Ar "tape_device dist_directories"
|
|
.Pp
|
|
where
|
|
.Ar tape_device
|
|
is the name of the tape device that
|
|
describes the tape drive you're using; possibly
|
|
.Pa /dev/rst0 ,
|
|
or something similar, but it will vary from system to system.
|
|
(If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.)
|
|
In the above example,
|
|
.Ar dist_directories
|
|
are the
|
|
distribution sets' directories, for the distribution sets you
|
|
wish to place on the tape.
|
|
For instance, to put the
|
|
.Sy misc, base, No and Sy etc
|
|
distributions on tape (in
|
|
order to do the absolute minimum installation to a new disk),
|
|
you would do the following:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.Dl # Ic "cd \&.../NetBSD-\*V"
|
|
.Dl # Ic "cd \*M/binary"
|
|
.Dl # Ic "tar -cf" Ar tape_device Ic "misc etc kern"
|
|
.Pp
|
|
.(Note
|
|
You still need to fill in
|
|
.Ar tape_device No in the example.
|
|
.Note)
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Once you have the files on the tape, you can proceed to the
|
|
next step in the installation or upgrade process.
|
|
If you're installing
|
|
.Nx
|
|
from scratch, go to the section on preparing your hard disk, below.
|
|
If you're upgrading an existing installation, go directly to the section
|
|
on upgrading.
|
|
.\} \" ! \n[macppc]:\n[news68k]
|
|
.
|
|
.if !\n[macppc]:\n[news68k] \{\
|
|
.It Em Upgrade
|
|
If you are upgrading
|
|
.Nx ,
|
|
you also have the option of installing
|
|
.Nx
|
|
by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing
|
|
file system, and using them from there.
|
|
To do that, you must do the following:
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in
|
|
your current file system tree.
|
|
.if !r_pmax \{\
|
|
Please note that the
|
|
.Pa /dev
|
|
on the floppy used for upgrades only knows about
|
|
.Li wd0 ,
|
|
.Li wd1 ,
|
|
.Li sd0 ,
|
|
.Li sd1 ,
|
|
and
|
|
.Li sd2 .
|
|
If you have more than two IDE drives or more than three SCSI drives, you
|
|
should take care not to place the sets on the high-numbered drives.
|
|
.\} \" ! r_pmax
|
|
.Pp
|
|
At a bare minimum, you must upgrade the
|
|
.Sy base
|
|
and
|
|
.Sy kern
|
|
binary distributions, and so must put the
|
|
.Sy base
|
|
and
|
|
.Sy kern
|
|
sets somewhere in your file system.
|
|
If you wish, you can do the other sets, as well, but you should
|
|
.Em not
|
|
upgrade the
|
|
.Sy etc
|
|
distribution; it contains contains system configuration files
|
|
that you should review and update by hand.
|
|
.Pp
|
|
Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in
|
|
the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system.
|
|
.\} \" ! \n[macppc]:\n[news68k]
|
|
.
|
|
.tag)
|