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$NetBSD: xfer,v 1.2 1998/01/09 18:46:04 perry Exp $
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Installation is supported from several media types, including:
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Remote NFS partition
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FTP
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CDROM
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DOS Floppy
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Tape
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No matter which installation medium you choose, you'll need to have an
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installation kernel (and possibly a boot application, see
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"arm32/<platform>/prep" for details).
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Note that, if you are installing or upgrading from a writable media,
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the media can be write-protected if you wish. These systems mount a
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root image from inside the kernel, and will not need to write to the
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media.
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Obviously, the steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for
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installation or upgrade depend on which installation medium you
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choose. The steps for the various media are outlined below.
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To install or upgrade NetBSD using CDROM, you need to do the
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following:
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Find out (probably from the release notes supplied with the
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CDROM) where the sets files are on the CDROM.
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Proceed to the instruction on installation.
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To install or upgrade NetBSD using DOS floppies, you need to do the
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following:
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Count the number of "set_name.xx" files that make up the
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distribution sets you want to install or upgrade. You will
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need that number of 1.44M floppies.
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Format all of the floppies with DOS. DO NOT make any of them
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bootable DOS floppies. (If the floppies are bootable, then
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the DOS system files that make them bootable will take up
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some space, and you won't be able to fit the distribution set
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parts on the disks.) If you're using floppies that are
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formatted for DOS by their manufacturers, they probably
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aren't bootable, and you can use them out of the box.
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Place all of the "set_name.xx" files on the DOS disks.
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Once you have the files on DOS disks, you can proceed to the
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next step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're
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installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing
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your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing
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installation, go directly to the section on upgrading.
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To install or upgrade NetBSD using a tape, you need to do the
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following:
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To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to make a tape that
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contains the distribution set files, in "tar" format. If
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you're making the tape on a UN*X-like system, the easiest way
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to do so is probably something like:
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tar cf <tape_device> <dist_directories>
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where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device that
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describes the tape drive you're using (possibly /dev/rst0, or
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something similar, but it will vary from system to system.
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(If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.)
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In the above example, "<dist_directories>" are the
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distribution sets' directories, for the distribution sets you
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wish to place on the tape. For instance, to put the
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"misc13", "base13" and "etc13" distributions on tape (in
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order to do the absolute minimum installation to a new disk),
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you would do the following:
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cd .../NetBSD-_VER # the top of the tree
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cd arm32/binary
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tar cf <tape_device> misc13 etc13 kern13
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(Note that you still need to fill in "<tape_device>" in the
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example.)
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Once you have the files on the tape, you can proceed to the
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next step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're
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installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing
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your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing
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installation, go directly to the section on upgrading.
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To install or upgrade NetBSD using a remote partition, mounted via
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NFS, you must do the following:
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NOTE: This method of installation is recommended only for
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those already familiar with using BSD network
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configuration and management commands. If you aren't,
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this documentation should help, but is not intended to
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be all-encompassing.
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Place the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install into a
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directory on an NFS server, and make that directory mountable
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by the machine on which you are installing or upgrading NetBSD.
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This will probably require modifying the /etc/exports file on
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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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You need to know the the numeric IP address of the NFS server,
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and, if the server is not on a network directly connected to
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the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD,
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you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest
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to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric
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IP address of the NetBSD machine itself.
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Once the NFS server is set up properly and you have the
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information mentioned above, you can proceed to the next step
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in the installation or upgrade process. If you're installing
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NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on preparing your hard
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disk, below. If you're upgrading an existing installation, go
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directly to the section on upgrading.
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To install or upgrade NetBSD by using FTP to get the installation
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sets, you must do the following:
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NOTE: This method of installation is recommended only for
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those already familiar with using BSD network
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configuration and management commands. If you aren't,
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this documentation should help, but is not intended to
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be all-encompassing.
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The preparations for this installation/upgrade method are
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easy; all you make sure that there's some FTP site from which
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you can retrieve the NetBSD distribution when you're about to
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install or upgrade. You need to know the numeric IP address
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of that site, and, if it's not on a network directly connected
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to the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD,
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you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest
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to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric
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IP address of the NetBSD machine itself.
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Once you have this information, you can proceed to the next
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step in the installation or upgrade process. If you're
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installing NetBSD from scratch, go to the section on
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preparing your hard disk, below. If you're upgrading an
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existing installation, go directly to the section on
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upgrading.
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If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing
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NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing
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file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the
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following:
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Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in
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your current file system tree. Please note that the /dev on
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the floppy used for upgrades only knows about wd0, wd1, sd0,
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sd1 and sd2. If you have more than two IDE drives or more than
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three SCSI drives, you should take care not to place the sets
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on the high numbered drives.
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At a bare minimum, you must upgrade the "base" binary
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distribution, and so must put the "base13" set somewhere in
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your file system. If you wish, you can do the other sets, as
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well, but you should NOT upgrade the "etc" distribution; the
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"etc" distribution contains system configuration files that
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you should review and update by hand.
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in
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the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system.
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