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.\" $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.1 2000/06/14 10:34:32 tsutsui Exp $
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NOTE: NetBSD/news68k \*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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.Pp
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No matter which installation medium you choose, you'll need to have a
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1.44M floppy disk. You'll put the boot floppy image onto this disk,
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which contains 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 UN*X-like system (such as NEWS-OS 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) directly to the raw floppy disk. It is suggested that you
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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 some i386 machine which runs
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.Tn 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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.Li 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. It will write a file system image (.fs file) to a floppy
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disk.
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.Pp
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Though NetBSD/news68k uses the floppy disk to boot for the initial
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installation, NetBSD/news68k kernel does not support any
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floppy device. Some other machines or systems are still required
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to write floppy images even after NetBSD/news68k have 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 NetBSD/news68k as diskless. No file transfer is
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needed, and all you have to do is to prepare files on 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 NEWS
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.Tn PROM No Ns s
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supports also tape boot and network boot, but NetBSD/news68k does not
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support them currently.
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.Pp
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After the boot floppy is prepared, just type "bo fh" on the PROM prompt
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to boot it.
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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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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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.
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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 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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