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113 lines
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.\" $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.6 1999/05/04 03:42:20 simonb Exp $
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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. Some versions of
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DECstation
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.Tn PROM No Ns s
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are buggy and will not boot via
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.Tn TFTP
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and bootp; still 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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Installation is supported from several media types, including:
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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NFS partitions
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.It
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FTP
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.It
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Tape
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.It
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CD-ROM
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.El
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.Pp
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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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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width NFS\ Installation
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.It Em NFS Installation
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Place the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install into a directory
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on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable by the machine
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on which you are installing or upgrading NetBSD. This will probably
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require modifying the
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.Pa /etc/exports
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file on 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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.Pp
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You will need to know the IP address of your nameserver or of your NFS
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server, and, if the server is not on a network directly connected to the
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machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, you need to know
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the IP address of the closest router . Finally, you need to know the IP
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address of the NetBSD machine itself. The install program will ask you
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to provide this information to be able to access the sets via NFS.
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.Pp
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If you are using a diskless setup to install NetBSD on your machine,
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you can take advantage of the fact that the above has already been done
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on your machine's server. So, you can conveniently put the NetBSD file
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sets in your machine's root filesystem on the server where the install
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program can find them.
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.Pp
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Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the information
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mentioned above, you can start the actual installation process.
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.It Em FTP Installation
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Determine an FTP site from which you can retrieve the NetBSD
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distribution when you're about to install. You will need to know the
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IP address of your nameserver or of your ftp site, and, if it's not on
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a network directly connected to the machine on which you're installing
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or upgrading NetBSD, you need to know the IP address of the closest
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router. Finally, you need to know the IP address of the NetBSD machine
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itself. The install program will ask you to provide this information to
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be able to access the sets via ftp.
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.Pp
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Once you have this information, you can proceed to the actual
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installation.
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.It Em Tape Installation
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To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow get the NetBSD
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filesets you wish to install on your system on to the appropriate kind
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of tape, in tar format.
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.(Note
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the tape devices with which NetBSD/pmax is believed to work is the DEC
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TK-50. This is a very slow device. Installation via disk or network is
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recommended if at all possible.
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.Note)
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.Pp
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If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest way to do so is:
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.Dl tar cvf Ar tape_device files
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.No where Ar tape_device
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is the name of the tape device that describes the tape drive you're
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using (possibly something like
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.Pa /dev/nrst0 ,
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but we make no guarantees 8-). Under SunOS 5.x, this would be
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something like
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.Pa /dev/rmt/0mbn.
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Again, your mileage may vary. If you can't figure it out, ask your
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system administrator.
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.Ar files No are the names
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of the
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.Ar set_name.nnn
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files which you want to be placed on the tape.
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.Pp
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in the
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installation process, preparing your system for NetBSD installation.
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.It Em CD-ROM Installation
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If you are installing from a CD-ROM, the distribution sets are
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already in the proper format and no special handling is required.
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.El
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