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The installation can be broken down into three basic steps:
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* Run Mkfs to build a filesystem or filesystems.
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* Run Install Utility to load the files onto your filesystems.
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* Run the booter to boot the system.
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**** Preparing the filesystem(s)
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Double-click on the Mkfs application icon to start it up. It will ask
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you for the SCSI ID of the drive that you are installing upon. Once
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this is selected, it will present a list of the partitions on that disk.
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Select the partition on which you wish to build a filesystem and click
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on the "Format" button. You will now be asked for a bunch of parameters
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for the hard drive and the filesystem. Usually, you can just take the
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defaults. If you are installing onto a Syquest, please see the FAQ.
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Note that although this dialog only has the "OK" button, you are not
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committed, yet. Once you get the values you want, press the "OK" button.
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A dialog will be presented at this point with two options: "Format" and
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"Cancel." If you choose "Cancel," nothing will be written to your drive.
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If you choose "Format," the program will proceed to make a filesystem.
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Mkfs is not a well-behaved Macintosh application. It will not allow
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any other tasks to run while it does (cooperative multitasking at its
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best). When it's finished, the program will put up a dialog to ask if
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you have scanned the output for any error messages. Usually there won't
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have been any errors, but do scan the output to make sure. Simply click
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on the "I Read It" button and the program will quit.
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Repeat as necessary for any extra partitions that you wish to make
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filesystems on. Note that you do _not_ need a filesystem on your swap
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partition.
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**** Installing the files
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Double-click on the Install Utility icon to start it up. The installer
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will present the same SCSI ID menu that mkfs did. Select the same SCSI
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ID that you did for mkfs--i.e., the one you are installing onto.
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If you are installing onto a single root partition, proceed to the
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"Installation of base files" section, below.
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If you have not created filesystems for the root, usr, and
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any other filesystems, go back to "Preparing the filesystem(s),"
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above.
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When you started the installer, it mounted your root partition.
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Just before it printed, "Mounting partition 'A' as /," it printed
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lines like:
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sd1 at scsi ID 5.
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This means that the device for scsi ID 5 is sd1. The partitions
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are signified by a trailing letter. For instance, sd1a would be
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the root partition of the second scsi disk in the chain, and sd0g
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would be the first usr partition on the first scsi disk.
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You will need to know the proper device to mount the remaining
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partition(s) by hand:
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* Select "Build Devices" from the "File" menu.
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* Select "Mini Shell" from the "File" menu.
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* Mount the filesystems you wish with the command:
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mount device path
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For example, if you wish to mount a usr partition from
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the first scsi disk, sd0, on /usr, you would type:
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mount /dev/sd0g /usr
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* Type "quit" after you have mounted all the filesystems.
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Installation of base files:
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Select the "Install" menu item from the "File" menu and install
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base12, netbsd, and any other packages you wish to install at
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this time (see the contents section for information about what's
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in each package). The installer will print out the filename of
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each file as it is installed, and will take quite some time to
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install everything.
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As is the case with Mkfs, this is not a particularly well-behaved
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Macintosh application and the machine will be completely tied up
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while the installation takes place.
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At some point after installing the base package, select the "Build
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Devices" option from the "File" menu. This will create a bunch of
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device nodes for you and will create your initial /etc/fstab. The
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installer program also has an option to give you a mini-shell. Do
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not use this unless you know what you are doing.
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**** Booting the system
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Double-click on the NetBSD/mac68k Booter icon to start the application.
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Check that the options in the Booting dialog look sane--especially the
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SCSI ID. If not, correct them to your preference. When you are satisfied
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with your choices, try booting NetBSD.
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If you wish to save your preferences, choose the "Save Preferences"
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option in the "File" menu, then quit the application and restart. Due
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to a long-standing bug, the preferences will not be saved unless you
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quit.
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If the system does not come up, send mail to scottr@netbsd.org describing
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your software, your hardware, and as complete a description of the
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problem as you can.
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If the system does come up, congratulations, you have successfully
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installed NetBSD 1.2. When you reboot into NetBSD, you should log
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in as "root" at the login prompt. There is no initial password, but
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if you're using the machine in a networked environment, you should
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create yourself an account and protect it and the "root" account with
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good passwords.
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Some of the files in the NetBSD 1.2 distribution might need to be
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tailored for your site. In particular, the /etc/sendmail.cf file will
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almost definitely need to be adjusted, and other files in /etc will
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probably need to be modified, as well. If you are unfamiliar with
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UN*X-like system administration, it's recommended that you buy a book
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that discusses it.
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