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lukem 001c68bd94 Rename a large chunk of the make(1) variables which refer to a program/tool from "FOO" to "TOOL_FOO". The new variables are: TOOL_ASN1_COMPILE TOOL_CAP_MKDB TOOL_CAT TOOL_CKSUM TOOL_COMPILE_ET TOOL_CONFIG TOOL_CRUNCHGEN TOOL_CTAGS TOOL_DB TOOL_EQN TOOL_FGEN TOOL_GENCAT TOOL_GROFF TOOL_HEXDUMP TOOL_INDXBIB TOOL_INSTALLBOOT TOOL_INSTALL_INFO TOOL_M4 TOOL_MAKEFS TOOL_MAKEINFO TOOL_MAKEWHATIS TOOL_MDSETIMAGE TOOL_MENUC TOOL_MKCSMAPPER TOOL_MKESDB TOOL_MKLOCALE TOOL_MKMAGIC TOOL_MKTEMP TOOL_MSGC TOOL_MTREE TOOL_PAX TOOL_PIC TOOL_PREPMKBOOTIMAGE TOOL_PWD_MKDB TOOL_REFER TOOL_ROFF_ASCII TOOL_ROFF_DVI TOOL_ROFF_HTML TOOL_ROFF_PS TOOL_ROFF_RAW TOOL_RPCGEN TOOL_SOELIM TOOL_SUNLABEL TOOL_TBL TOOL_UUDECODE TOOL_VGRIND TOOL_ZIC For each, provide default in <bsd.sys.mk> of the form: TOOL_FOO?= foo and for the ${USETOOLS}=="yes" case in <bsd.own.mk>, provide override: TOOL_FOO= ${TOOLDIR}/bin/${_TOOL_PREFIX}foo Document all of these in bsd.README. This cleans up a chunk of potential (and actual) namespace collision within our build infrastructure, as well as improves consistency in the share/mk documentation and provision of appropriate defaults for each of these variables.		2003-07-10 10:33:58 +00:00
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floppy-GENERIC	Rename a large chunk of the make(1) variables which refer to a	2003-07-10 10:33:58 +00:00
instkernel	Rename a large chunk of the make(1) variables which refer to a	2003-07-10 10:33:58 +00:00
rz25dist	Rename a large chunk of the make(1) variables which refer to a	2003-07-10 10:33:58 +00:00
Makefile	Install release files under "${RELEASEDIR}/${MACHINE}/..." instead of	2003-01-03 15:34:30 +00:00
README.files	…

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.