NetBSD/distrib/notes/mac68k/install

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$NetBSD: install,v 1.19 1998/08/23 12:42:19 hubertf Exp $
The installation can be broken down into three basic steps:
* Run Mkfs to build a filesystem or filesystems.
* Run the Installer to load the files onto your filesystems.
* Run the Booter to boot the system.
**** Preparing the filesystem(s)
Double-click on the Mkfs application icon to start it up. It will ask you
for the SCSI ID of the drive that you are installing upon. Once this is
selected, it will present a list of the partitions on that disk. You must
first convert the partitions to a type which NetBSD can understand. Select
each partition on which you wish to build a filesystem and click on the
"Change" button. If you are placing the entire installation on a single
partition, select the "NetBSD Root&Usr" radio button. If you are using
multiple partitions, select "NetBSD Root" for the root partition and
"NetBSD Usr" for all the other partitions. You should select "NetBSD Swap"
for the swap partition.
When you have finished converting each partition, select each partition and
click on the "Format" button. You will now be asked for a bunch of
parameters for the hard drive and the filesystem. Usually, you can just
take the defaults. If you are installing onto removable media (e.g. a Zip,
Jaz, or Syquest), please see the FAQ. Note that although this dialog only
has the "OK" button, you are not committed, yet. Once you get the values
you want, press the "OK" button. A dialog will be presented at this point
with two options: "Format" and "Cancel." If you choose "Cancel," nothing
will be written to your drive. If you choose "Format," the program will
proceed to make a filesystem.
Mkfs is not a well-behaved Macintosh application. It will not allow any
other tasks to run while it does (cooperative multitasking at its best).
When it's finished, the program will put up a dialog to ask if you have
scanned the output for any error messages. Usually there won't have been
any errors, but do scan the output to make sure. Simply click on the "I
Read It" button and the program will quit.
Repeat as necessary for any extra partitions that you wish to make
filesystems on. Note that you do _not_ need a filesystem on your swap
partition.
When you are finished, click on the "Done" button and choose "Quit" from
the "File" menu to exit Mkfs.
**** Installing the files
Before using the Installer, it is probably a good idea to increase its
memory allocation. Select the Installer icon by clicking on it and choose
"Get Info" from the File menu. Increase both the Minimum and Preferred
sizes to as much as you can spare.
Double-click on the Installer icon to start it up. The Installer will
present the same SCSI ID menu that Mkfs did. Select the same SCSI ID that
you did for Mkfs--i.e., the one you are installing onto.
If you are installing onto a single root partition, proceed to the
"Installation of base files" section, below.
If you have not created filesystems for the root, usr, and
any other filesystems, go back to "Preparing the filesystem(s),"
above.
When you started the Installer, it mounted your root partition.
Just before it printed, "Mounting partition 'A' as /," it printed
lines like:
sd1 at scsi ID 5.
This means that the device for scsi ID 5 is sd1. The partitions
are signified by a trailing letter. For instance, sd1a would be
the root partition of the second scsi disk in the chain, and sd0g
would be the first Usr partition on the first scsi disk.
You will need to know the proper device to mount the remaining
partition(s) by hand:
* Select "Build Devices" from the "File" menu.
* Select "Mini Shell" from the "File" menu.
* You can use the 'disklabel' command to get a listing of
the available partitions and their types and sizes.
* Create the directory mount point(s) with the command:
mkdir path
(e.g. for the /usr partition type: mkdir /usr)
* Mount the filesystems you wish with the command:
mount device path
For example, if you wish to mount a usr partition from
the first scsi disk, sd0, on /usr, you would type:
mount /dev/sd0g /usr
* Type "fstab force" to create a proper /etc/fstab file
* Type "quit" after you have mounted all the filesystems.
Installation of base files:
Select the "Install" menu item from the "File" menu and install
base.tgz, etc.tgz, netbsd.tgz, and any other sets you wish to
install at this time (see the contents section for information
about what's in each set). The Installer will print out the
filename of each file as it is installed, and will take quite some
time to install everything (the base package alone can take over an
hour on a slow hard drive).
As is the case with Mkfs, this is not a particularly well-behaved
Macintosh application and the machine will be completely tied up
while the installation takes place.
At some point after installing the base set, select the "Build
Devices" option from the "File" menu if you have not already done
so. This will create a bunch of device nodes for you and will
create your initial /etc/fstab. The Installer program also has an
option to give you a mini-shell. Do not use this unless you are
sure know what you are doing.
When you are finished installing all of the sets you wish to
install, exit the Installer by choosing "Quit" from the "File" menu.
**** Booting the system
Prior to attempting to boot NetBSD/mac68k, please verify that all of
the following are true:
1) 32-bit addressing is enabled[*] in the Memory control panel;
2) All forms of virtual memory are disabled (the Memory control
panel, RAM Doubler, or other software-based memory enhancement
products); and
3) Your system is in B&W mode (1-bit color or grayscale) as shown
by the Monitors control panel. You may choose to have the
Booter do this for you automatically by selecting the appropriate
check box and radio button in the "Monitors" dialog on the
"Options" menu.
It is probably best to boot your machine with all extensions turned
off[*]. You can do this by booting into MacOS with the SHIFT key held
down. You may have to restart your Macintosh for changes to take effect
before proceeding.
[* NOTE: If you have an older II-class system (including the II, IIx, IIcx,
and SE/30), it is necessary to install Connectix's MODE32 to work around
ROM issues which prevent you from enabling 32-bit addressing. Please see
<http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/> for more information.]
Double-click on the NetBSD/mac68k Booter icon to start the application.
Select "Booting" from the "Options" menu. Check that all of the items in
the resulting dialog look sane--especially the SCSI ID. If not, correct
them to your preference (the SCSI ID should be the only thing you need to
change). When you are satisfied with your choices, try booting NetBSD by
selecting "Boot Now" from the "Options" menu.
If you wish to save your preferences, choose "Save Options" from the
"File" menu before Booting (your preferences will not be saved if you
forget to do this).
If the system does not come up, send mail to port-mac68k@netbsd.org
describing your software, your hardware, and as complete a description of
the problem as you can.
If the system does come up, congratulations, you have successfully
installed NetBSD _VER.