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1Installing NetBSD is a relatively complex process, but, if you have 2this document in hand and are careful to read and remember the 3information which is presented to you by the install program, it 4shouldn't be too much trouble. 5 6Before you begin, you must have already prepared your hard disk as 7detailed in the section on preparing your system for install. 8 9The following is a walk-through of the steps necessary to get NetBSD 10installed on your hard disk. If you wish to stop the installation, 11you may hit Control-C at any prompt, but if you do, you'll have to 12begin again from scratch. 13 14 First you need to get yourself into NetBSD. This can be 15 done in a couple ways, both of which currently require 16 AmigaDOS. 17 18 You can insert the AmigaDOS kernel boot floppy and reboot 19 or if you have downloaded a kernel to an AmigaDOS partition 20 along with loadbsd you can run it from the CLI like so: 21 22 loadbsd -b netbsd 23 24 You should see the screen clear and some information about 25 your system as the kernel configures the hardware. Then 26 you will be prompted for a root device. At this time remove 27 the AmigaDOS kernel floppy from the drive if present and 28 insert the BSD boot floppy. Now type `fd0' to boot off of 29 your floppy drive 0. 30 31 The system should continue to boot. For now ignore WARNING: 32 messages about bad dates in clocks and swap space and about 33 a missing /etc/spwd.db (it didn't fit, *shrug*). Eventually 34 you will be asked asked to enter the pathname of the shell, 35 just hit return. After a short while you should see a 36 welcome message and a prompt, asking if you wish to proceed 37 with the installation. 38 39 If you wish to proceed, enter "y" and then return. 40 41 If you have configured your hard drive[s] correctly it 42 should find the drive and partition that you selected to 43 use as your root. 44 45 YOU ARE NOW AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN. If you confirm that 46 you want to install NetBSD, your hard drive will be modified, 47 and perhaps it contents scrambled at the whim of the install 48 program. 49 50 If you are sure you want to proceed, enter "yes" at the 51 prompt. 52 53 The install program will now make the root filesystem you 54 specified. There should be only one error in this section 55 of the installation. It will look like so: 56 57 newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument 58 newfs: /dev/rsd0a: can't rewrite disk label 59 60 If there are any others, restart from the the beginning of 61 the installation process. This error is ok as the amiga 62 does not write disklabels currently. You should expect 63 this error whenever using newfs. 64 65 Next the install program will ask you which drive and 66 partition you wish to use as /usr. First it will list the 67 available drives. Choose one. Next it will give you a 68 list of the partitions on that disk along with their sizes, 69 types, etc.. Choose the letter that corresponds to the 70 partition you wish to use for /usr. If you are doing a 71 full install this should be at the very least 45M-50M large. 72 If everything is ok the install program will then format 73 and mount your /usr. If not then it will ask again for a 74 drive and partition. 75 76 When this completes your root partition will be mounted on 77 /mnt and your /usr partition on /mnt/usr. An fstab will 78 have been created and initialized to correctly mount these 79 two file systems. This fstab will be in /mnt/etc. 80 81 What you do from this point on depends on which media you're 82 using to install NetBSD. Follow the appropriate instructions, 83 given below. 84 85 To install from an AmigaDOS partition: 86 87 You first need to mount the AmigaDOS partition 88 using the mount_ados command. If e.g. your AmigaDOS 89 partition is the first partition on sd0 you could 90 type: 91 92 mkdir /mnt/ados 93 mount_ados /dev/sd0d /mnt/ados 94 95 You can use `disklabel sd0' to find out what types 96 of partitions are on the disk `sd0'. 97 98 Next goto the directory in which you stored the 99 distribution sets. If e.g. you stored them in the 100 root directory of the partition: 101 102 cd /mnt/ados 103 104 When there, run "Set_tmp_dir" and choose the default 105 temporary directory, by hitting return at the 106 prompt. 107 108 Run the "Extract" command, giving it as its sole 109 argument the name of the distribution set you wish 110 to extract. For example, to extract the base 111 distribution, use the command: 112 113 Extract base10 114 115 and to extract the games distribution: 116 117 Extract game10 118 119 Continue this process until you've finished installing 120 all of the sets which you desire to have on your 121 hard disk. Once you have extracted all sets and 122 are at the "#" prompt again, proceed to the section 123 "Configuring Your System," below. 124 125 To install from tape: 126 127 The first thing you should do is pick a temporary 128 directory where the distribution files can be stored. 129 To do this, use the command "Set_tmp_dir" and enter 130 your choice. The default is /mnt/usr/distrib. 131 132 After you have picked a temporary directory, 133 you should issue the load command: 134 135 Load_tape 136 137 Next, you will be told to insert the media into 138 the appropriate drive, and hit return. Continue 139 to follow instructions until you are returned to 140 the "#" prompt. 141 142 Go to the directory which contains the first 143 distribution set you wish to install. This is 144 either the directory you specified above, or possibly 145 a subdirectory of that directory. 146 147 When there, run "Set_tmp_dir" again, and choose 148 the default temporary directory, by hitting 149 return at the prompt. 150 151 Run the "Extract" command, giving it as its sole 152 argument the name of the distribution set you 153 wish to extract. For example, to extract the base 154 distribution, use the command: 155 156 Extract base10 157 158 and to extract the games distribution: 159 160 Extract game10 161 162 After the extraction is complete, go to the location 163 of the next set you want to extract, "Set_tmp_dir" 164 again, and once again issue the appropriate 165 extract command. Continue this process until 166 you've finished installing all of the sets which you 167 desire to have on your hard disk. 168 169 After each set is finished, if you know that you 170 are running low on space you can remove the 171 distribution files for that set by saying: 172 173 rm set_name.?? 174 175 For example, if you wish to remove the distribution 176 files for the game09 set, after the "Extract game09" 177 command has completed, issue the command: 178 179 rm game10.?? 180 181 Once you have extracted all sets and are at the "#" prompt 182 again, proceed to the section "Configuring Your System," 183 below. 184 185 To install via FTP or NFS: 186 187 First, use Set_tmp_dir to pick a temporary directory 188 for the installation files. /mnt/usr/distrib is 189 suggested. 190 191 Configure the appropriate ethernet interface i.e. le0 192 if you have a 2065 or ed0 if you have a AMIGNET from 193 Hydra Systems. 194 195 ifconfig <ifname> <ipaddr> [netmask <netmask>] 196 197 where <ifname> is the interface name (e.g. ed0, etc.), 198 and <ipaddr> is the numeric IP address of the interface. 199 If the interface has a special netmask, supply 200 the word "netmask" and that netmask at the end of the 201 command line. For instance, without a special netmask: 202 203 ifconfig ed0 129.133.10.10 204 205 or with a special netmask 206 207 ifconfig ed0 128.32.240.167 netmask 0xffffff00 208 209 If the NFS server or FTP server is not on a directly- 210 connected network, you should set up a route to it 211 with the command: 212 213 route add default <gate_ipaddr> 214 215 where <gate_ipaddr> is your gateway's numeric IP address. 216 217 If you are NFS-mounting the distribution sets, 218 mount them on the temporary directory with the command: 219 220 mount -t nfs <serv_ipaddr>:<dist_dir> <tmp_dir> 221 222 where <serv_ipaddr> is the server's numeric IP address, 223 <dist_dir> is the path to the distribution files on 224 the server, and <tmp_dir> is the name of the local 225 temporary directory. 226 227 Once this is done, proceed as if you had loaded the 228 files from tape, "cd"ing to the appropriate directories 229 and running "Set_tmp_dir" and "Extract" as appropriate. 230 231 If you are retrieving the distribution sets using ftp, 232 cd into the temp directory, and execute the command: 233 234 ftp <serv_ipaddr> 235 236 where <serv_ipaddr> is once again the server's 237 numeric IP address. Get the files with FTP, 238 taking care to use binary mode to transfer 239 all files. 240 241 Once you have all of the files for the distribution sets 242 you wish to install, you can proceed using the instructions 243 above as if you had installed the files from a tape. 244 245 246Configuring Your System: 247----------- ---- ------ 248 249Once you have finished extracting all of the distribution sets that 250you want on your hard drive and are back at the "#" prompt, 251you are ready to configure your system. 252 253The configuration utility expects that you have installed the base 254system. If you have not, you will not be able to run it successfully 255(nor will you have a functional system regardless of configuration). 256 257To configure the newly installed operating system, run the 258command "Configure". 259 260Configure will ask for the machine's hostname, domain name, and other 261network configuration information. 262 263Once you have supplied configure all that it requests, your machine 264will be configured well enough that when you reboot it it will 265almost be a completely functional NetBSD system. Note you should 266ignore the errors from `chown' they will be corrected shortly. 267 268Once you are done with `Configure', halt the system with the "halt" 269command and reboot. Then again boot NetBSD this time with the 270command: 271 272 loadbsd netbsd 273 274You need to do your final tweeks now. First mount your file systems 275like so: 276 277 mount -av 278 279Next you need to re-make your devices to get the ownership correct: 280 281 cd /dev 282 MAKEDEV all 283 284Your system is now complete but not completely configured; you 285should adjust the /etc/sendmail.cf file as necessary to suit your 286site and/or disable sendmail and other network related programs. 287These things can be found in /etc/netstart. Use vi, if you installed 288the man pages you can type `man vi' or `man ed' for instructions 289on how to use these somewhat non-intuitive editors. 290 291Once you are done with the rest of configuration unmount your file 292systems and halt your system, then reboot: 293 294 cd / 295 umount -av 296 halt 297 <reboot> 298 299Finally you can now boot your system and it will be completely 300functional: 301 302 loadbsd -a netbsd 303 304When it boots off of the hard drive, you will have a complete 305NetBSD system! CONGRATULATIONS! (You really deserve them!!!) 306