install revision 1.14
1 $NetBSD: install,v 1.14 1998/01/09 18:45:44 perry Exp $ 2 3Installing NetBSD is a relatively complex process, but, if you have 4this document in hand and are careful to read and remember the 5information which is presented to you by the install program, it 6shouldn't be too much trouble. 7 8Before you begin, you must have already prepared your hard disk as 9detailed in the section on preparing your system for install. 10 11The following is a walk-through of the steps necessary to get NetBSD 12installed on your hard disk. If you wish to stop the installation, 13you may hit Control-C at any prompt, but if you do, you'll have to 14begin again from scratch. 15 16 Transfer the miniroot file system onto the hard disk partition 17 used by NetBSD for swapping, as described in the "Preparing 18 your System for NetBSD Installation" section above. 19 20 * Booting from AmigaOS, using loadbsd: 21 22 You then need to have "ixemul.library" in your LIBS: directory 23 on AmigaDOS. You also need to have the "loadbsd" program 24 in your command path. If AmigaDOS complains about loadbsd 25 not being an executable file, be sure that the "Execute" 26 protection bit is set. If not, set it with the command: 27 Protect loadbsd add e 28 29 Next you need to get yourself into NetBSD by loading the 30 kernel from AmigaDOS with loadbsd like so: 31 32 loadbsd -b netbsd 33 34 If you have an AGA machine, and your monitor will handle 35 the dblNTSC mode, you may also include the "-A" option to 36 enable the dblNTSC display mode. 37 38 If your machine has a fragmented physical memory space, as, 39 e.g., DraCo machines, you should add the "-n2" option to 40 enable the use of all memory segments. 41 42 * Directly booting NetBSD, with boot blocks installed: 43 44 [This description is for V40 (OS 3.1) ROMs. For older ROMs, 45 there might be small differences. Check your AmigaOS documentation 46 to learn about the exact procedure.] 47 48[XXX should note someplace that using bootblocks may not work on some 49 systems, and may require a mountable filesystem on others?] 50 51 Reboot your machine, holding down both mouse buttons if you 52 have a 2-button mouse, the outer mouse buttons if you have 53 a 3-button mouse. On the DraCo, press the left mouse button 54 instead, when the boot screen prompts you for it. 55 56 From the boot menu, select "Boot Options". 57 Select the swap partition with the miniroot, and then "ok". 58 Select "Boot" now. The machine will boot the bootblock, which 59 will prompt your for a command line. You have a few seconds time 60 to change the default. Entering an empty line will accept the 61 default. 62 63 The bootblock uses command lines of the form: 64 65 file options 66 67 where file is the kernel file name on the partition where the 68 boot block is on, and options are the same as with loadbsd. 69 E.g., instead of "loadbsd -bsSn2 netbsd" use "netbsd -bsSn2". 70 71 * Once your kernel boots: 72 73 You should see the screen clear and some information about 74 your system as the kernel configures the hardware. Note which 75 hard disk device(s) are configured (sd0, sd1, etc). Then 76 you will be prompted for a root device. At this time type 77 'sd0b', where '0' is the device which contains the swap 78 partition you created during the hard disk preparation. 79 80 If the system should hang after entering the root device, try 81 again with 82 83 loadbsd -I ff -b netbsd 84 85 This disables synchronous transfer on all SCSI devices. 86 87 The system should continue to boot. For now ignore WARNING: 88 messages about bad dates in clocks, and a warning about /etc/rc 89 not existing. Eventually you will be be asked to enter the 90 pathname of the shell, just hit return. After a short while, 91 you will be asked to select the type of your keyboard. After 92 you have entered a valid response here, the system asks you if 93 you want to install or upgrade your system. Since you are 94 reading the 'install' section, 'i' would be the proper 95 response here... 96 97 The installer starts with a nice welcome messages. Read this 98 message carefully, it also informs you of the risks involved 99 in continuing! If you still want to go on, type 'y'. The 100 installer now continues by trying to figure out your disk 101 configuration. When it is done, you will be prompted to 102 select a root device from the list of disks it has found. 103 104 You should know at this point that the disks are NOT numbered 105 according to their scsi-id! The NetBSD kernel numbers the scsi 106 drives (and other devices on the scsi bus) sequentially as it 107 finds them. The drive with the lowest scsi id will be called sd0, 108 the next one sd1, etc. Also, any Amiga internal IDE disk drives 109 will be configured as "SCSI" drives, and will be configured 110 before any 'real' SCSI drives (if any are present). 111 112 YOU ARE NOW AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN. If you confirm that 113 you want to install NetBSD, your hard drive will be modified, 114 and perhaps its contents scrambled at the whim of the install 115 program. Type Control-C NOW if you don't want this. 116 117 At this time, you will need to tell the installer which partition 118 will be associated with the different filesystems. 119 120 The install program will now make the the file systems you 121 specified. There should be only one error per file system in 122 this section of the installation. It will look like this: 123 124 newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument 125 newfs: /dev/rsd0a: can't rewrite disk label 126 127 If there are any others, restart from the the beginning of 128 the installation process. This error is ok as the Amiga 129 does not write disklabels currently. You should expect 130 this error whenever using newfs. 131 132 The install will now ask you want to configure any network 133 information. It ill ask for the machine's host name, domain 134 name, and other network configuration information. 135 136 Since the network configuration might have lead to additional (nfs) 137 filesystem entries, you get another chance to modify your fstab. 138 139 You are finally at the point where some real data will be put on 140 your freshly made filesystems. Select the device type you wish 141 to install from and off you go.... 142 Some notes: 143 - If you want to install from tape, please read the section 144 about how to create such a tape. 145 - Some tapes (e.g. Archive Viper 150) refuse to operate with 146 the default tape density ("nrst0"). Try "nrst0h", 147 "nrst0m", or "nrst0l" instead. 148 - Install at least the base and etc sets. 149 - If you have to specify a path relative to the mount-point and 150 you need the mount-point itself, enter '.'. 151 152 Next you will be asked to specify the timezone. Just select the 153 timezone you are in. The installer will make the correct setup 154 on your root filesystem. After the timezone-link is installed, 155 the installer will proceed by creating the device nodes on your 156 root filesystem. 157 158 Be patient, this will take a while... 159 160 Finally, the installer ask you if you want to install the bootblock 161 code on your root disk. This is a matter of personal choice and can 162 also be done from a running NetBSD system. See the 'installboot(8)' 163 manual page about how to do this. 164 165 166Once the installer is done, halt the system with the "halt" command 167(wait for "halted" to be displayed) and reboot. Then again boot 168NetBSD this time with the command: 169 170 loadbsd netbsd 171 172or select the root partition from the boot menu, and tell it to boot 173 174 netbsd -s 175 176You need to do your final tweaks now. First mount your file systems 177like so: 178 179 mount -av 180 181Your system is now complete but not completely configured; you 182should adjust the /etc/sendmail.cf file as necessary to suit your 183site. You should also examine and adjust the settings in /etc/rc.conf. 184You can use vi or ed to edit the files. If you installed the man pages 185you can type `man vi' or `man ed' for instructions on how to use these 186somewhat non-intuitive editors. 187 188Once you are done with the rest of configuration unmount your file 189systems and halt your system, then reboot: 190 191 cd / 192 umount -av 193 halt 194 <reboot> 195 196Finally you can now boot your system and it will be completely 197functional: 198 199 loadbsd -a netbsd 200 201When it boots off of the hard drive, you will have a complete 202NetBSD system! CONGRATULATIONS! (You really deserve them!!!) 203