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First-time installation on a bare machine is not supported, because most
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DECstations do not have any suitable load device. Some versions of
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DECstation PROMs are buggy and will not boot via TFTP/bootp; still
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other versions are buggy and do not boot via MOP.
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The only DECstation with a floppy-disk drive is the Personal Decstation,
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and that device is not supported as a boot device.
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The recommended installation procedure is to boot a miniroot via TFTP,
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or to use a "helper" system to write a miniroot onto a disk, move that
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disk to the target installation system, and then boot the miniroot.
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Once the miniroot is booted, a disklabel should be written.
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At that point,
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Installation is supported from several media types, including:
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NFS partitions
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FTP
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Tape
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The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
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for installation depend on which method of installation
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you choose. The various methods are explained below.
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To prepare for installing via an NFS partition:
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Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into
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a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory
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mountable by the machine which you will be installing
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NetBSD on. This will probably require modifying the
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/etc/exports file of the NFS server, and resetting
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mountd. Both these actions will require superuser
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privileges on the NFS server. Note the numeric IP address
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of the NFS server. If the NFS server is not on a network
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which is directly attached to the NetBSD machine, you must
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also note the numeric address of the router closest to the the
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new NetBSD machine.
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If you are using a diskless setup to install NetBSD on
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your machine, you can take advantage of the fact that
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the above has already been done on your machine's server.
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So, you can conveniently put the NetBSD filesets in your
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machine's root filesystem on the server where the install
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program can find them.
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
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step in the installation process, preparing your
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system for NetBSD installation.
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To prepare for installing via FTP:
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NOTE: this method of installation is recommended
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only for those already familiar with using
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the BSD network-manipulation commands and
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interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation
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should help, but is not intended to be
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all-encompassing.
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The preparations for this method of installation
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are easy: all you have to do is make sure that
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there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve
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the NetBSD installation when it's time to do
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the install. You should know the numeric IP
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address of that site, the numeric IP address of
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your nearest router if one is necessary
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
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step in the installation process, preparing your
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system for NetBSD installation.
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To prepare for installing via a tape:
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To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow
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get the NetBSD filesets you wish to install on
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your system on to the appropriate kind of tape,
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in tar format.
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NOTE: the tape devices with which NetBSD/pmax is
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beleived to work is the DEC TK-50. This is a very slow
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device. Installation via disk or network is recommended
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if at all possible.
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If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest
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way to do so is:
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tar cvf <tape_device> <files>
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where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device
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that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly
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something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-).
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Under SunOS 5.x, this would be something like /dev/rmt/0mbn.
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Again, your mileage may vary. If you can't figure it out,
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ask your system administrator. "<files>" are the names
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of the "set_name.nnn" files which you want to be placed
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on the tape.
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
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step in the installation process, preparing your
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system for NetBSD installation.
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