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lukem deffb66504 parselist.awk - improve comments - provide a general purpose variable replacement; replace contents of ${FOO} with ENVIRON["FOO"]. - deprecate @MACHINE@ and @MACHINE_ARCH@ in favour of using ${MACHINE} and ${MACHINE_ARCH} instead - add errx() function; like err(), but doesn't print the line number - invoke this script with various variables defined via PARSELISTENV /Makefile - use PARSELISTENV instead of POPULATEENV, and add variables like DESTDIR - other minor tweaks /list - replace @MACHINE@ with ${MACHINE}		2002-03-14 22:26:08 +00:00
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floppy-GENERIC	simplify all vnd(4) names for vnconfig(8) and disklabel(8) as required	2001-12-09 00:37:38 +00:00
instkernel	parselist.awk	2002-03-14 22:26:08 +00:00
rz25dist	TARGETS is defined by bsd.own.mk, so use LOCALTARGETS instead	2002-02-06 23:29:42 +00:00
Makefile	use check_RELEASEDIR, and minor whitespace cleanup	2002-03-06 13:31:04 +00:00
README.files	GENERIC doesn't fit on one floppy anymore. For now, disable the target.	1999-09-20 08:18:31 +00:00

README.files

$NetBSD: README.files,v 1.13 1999/09/20 08:18:31 ross Exp $

	   Tape, CD, Disk, and Netboot Images
	   ----- --- ----- --- ------- ------

This release or snapshot contains three installation image types,
the first, for floppies, is split into a multiple volume set.

	installation/floppy/disk1of2
	installation/floppy/disk2of2

	installation/diskimage/cdhdtape

	installation/instkernel/netbsd.gz

All three boot images load the same installation kernel into memory
and then make no further use of the source media. The general idea
is to load a kernel with a pre-initialized memory filesystem of
utilities and an installation program.

The floppy image set uses two floppies to load the install kernel.
The cdhdtape image can be written to a CD, hard drive, or tape and
then booted from the SRM console. The kernel image can be netbooted
or loaded off the root directory of an existing installation.

Note:	The netboot loader can load the netbsd.gz file directly; it
	is not necessary to ungzip this kernel first.

To copy the boot images to a magnetic disk under unix, the dd(1)
command can be used:

Floppy:
	dd if=disk1of2 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=18k
	(change floppies)
	dd if=disk2of2 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=18k

You can write the image to a hard drive too:

	dd bs=18k if=cdhdtape of=/dev/rsd1c
	dd bs=18k if=cdhdtape of=/dev/rsd1d (NetBSD/i386)

For a tape, it is important to use a block size of 512, so:

	dd bs=512 if=cdhdtape of=/dev/erst0	(NetBSD)
	dd bs=512 if=cdhdtape of=/dev/rmt0h	(Digital Unix)

Note that the bits on the installation media are only used when
initially loaded. They can be written to a hard drive, loaded, and
then overwritten during the installation with no conflict, or
alternatively, the boot CD or tape can be removed and replaced with
one containing the installation sets.

The install notes from this directory subtree are present on the
installation file system.