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Installation is supported from several media types, including:
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AmigaDOS HD partitions
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Tape
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NFS partitions
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FTP
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No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have one disk handy,
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on which you will put the install floppy image.
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All the images are available from the directory "amiga/floppies",
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under the root of the NetBSD tree at your favorite archive site.
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If you are using NetBSD/amiga to make the floppies, you should use
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the command dd(1) to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to
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the disk. To write onto fd0 use:
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dd if=inst-10.fs of=/dev/rfd0a bs=11b
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If you are using AmigaDOS to make the floppies, you should
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use the rawwrite utility, provided in the directory
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"amiga/utilities" in the distribution. To write the image to
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the floppy in df0 use (from cli):
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rawwrite 0 inst-10.fs
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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 AmigaDOS partition:
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To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to
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get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install
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on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition. All of the
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set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory
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instead of separate ones for each distribution set. This
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will also simplify the installation work later on.
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Note where you place the files you will need this later.
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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 hard disk.
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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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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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If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.
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"<files>" are the names of the "set_name.nnn" files
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which you want to be placed 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 hard disk.
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To prepare for installing via an NFS partition:
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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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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, acts which will require superuser privileges.
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Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of
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the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine,
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if the NFS server is not on a network which is
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directly attached to the NetBSD machine.
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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 hard disk.
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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 hard disk.
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