install revision 1.16
1	$NetBSD: install,v 1.16 1998/01/09 18:46:40 perry Exp $	
2
3The installation can be broken down into three basic steps:
4	* Run Mkfs to build a filesystem or filesystems.
5	* Run the Installer to load the files onto your filesystems.
6	* Run the Booter to boot the system.
7
8**** Preparing the filesystem(s)
9
10Double-click on the Mkfs application icon to start it up.  It will ask you
11for the SCSI ID of the drive that you are installing upon.  Once this is
12selected, it will present a list of the partitions on that disk. You must
13first convert the partitions to a type which NetBSD can understand. Select
14each partition on which you wish to build a filesystem and click on the
15"Change" button.  If you are placing the entire installation on a single
16partition, select the "NetBSD Root&Usr" radio button.  If you are using
17multiple partitions, select "NetBSD Root" for the root partition and
18"NetBSD Usr" for all the other partitions.  You should select "NetBSD Swap"
19for the swap partition. 
20
21When you have finished converting each partition, select each partition and
22click on the "Format" button.  You will now be asked for a bunch of
23parameters for the hard drive and the filesystem.  Usually, you can just
24take the defaults.  If you are installing onto removable media (e.g. a Zip,
25Jaz, or Syquest), please see the FAQ.  Note that although this dialog only
26has the "OK" button, you are not committed, yet.  Once you get the values
27you want, press the "OK" button. A dialog will be presented at this point
28with two options: "Format" and "Cancel."  If you choose "Cancel," nothing
29will be written to your drive.  If you choose "Format," the program will
30proceed to make a filesystem.
31
32Mkfs is not a well-behaved Macintosh application.  It will not allow any
33other tasks to run while it does (cooperative multitasking at its best).
34When it's finished, the program will put up a dialog to ask if you have
35scanned the output for any error messages.  Usually there won't have been
36any errors, but do scan the output to make sure.  Simply click on the "I
37Read It" button and the program will quit.
38
39Repeat as necessary for any extra partitions that you wish to make
40filesystems on.  Note that you do _not_ need a filesystem on your swap
41partition.
42
43When you are finished, click on the "Done" button and choose "Quit" from
44the "File" menu to exit Mkfs.
45
46**** Installing the files
47
48Before using the Installer, it is probably a good idea to increase its
49memory allocation.  Select the Installer icon by clicking on it and choose
50"Get Info" from the File menu.  Increase both the Minimum and Preferred
51sizes to as much as you can spare.
52
53Double-click on the Installer icon to start it up.  The Installer will
54present the same SCSI ID menu that Mkfs did.  Select the same SCSI ID that
55you did for Mkfs--i.e., the one you are installing onto. 
56
57If you are installing onto a single root partition, proceed to the
58"Installation of base files" section, below.
59
60	If you have not created filesystems for the root, usr, and
61	any other filesystems, go back to "Preparing the filesystem(s),"
62	above.
63
64	When you started the Installer, it mounted your root partition.
65	Just before it printed, "Mounting partition 'A' as /," it printed
66	lines like:
67		sd1 at scsi ID 5.
68	This means that the device for scsi ID 5 is sd1.  The partitions
69	are signified by a trailing letter.  For instance, sd1a would be
70	the root partition of the second scsi disk in the chain, and sd0g
71	would be the first Usr partition on the first scsi disk.
72
73	You will need to know the proper device to mount the remaining
74	partition(s) by hand:
75
76		* Select "Build Devices" from the "File" menu.
77
78		* Select "Mini Shell" from the "File" menu.
79
80		* You can use the 'disklabel' command to get a listing of
81		  the available partitions and their types and sizes.
82
83		* Mount the filesystems you wish with the command:
84			mount device path
85		  For example, if you wish to mount a usr partition from
86		  the first scsi disk, sd0, on /usr, you would type:
87			mount /dev/sd0g /usr
88
89		* Type "fstab force" to create a proper /etc/fstab file
90
91		* Type "quit" after you have mounted all the filesystems.
92
93Installation of base files:
94
95	Select the "Install" menu item from the "File" menu and install
96	base.tgz, etc.tgz, netbsd.tgz, and any other sets you wish to
97	install	at this time (see the contents section for information
98	about what's in each set).  The Installer will print out the
99	filename of each file as it is installed, and will take quite some 
100	time to install everything (the base package alone can take over an
101	hour on a slow hard drive).
102
103	As is the case with Mkfs, this is not a particularly well-behaved
104	Macintosh application and the machine will be completely tied up
105	while the installation takes place.
106
107	At some point after installing the base set, select the "Build
108	Devices" option from the "File" menu if you have not already done
109	so.  This will create a bunch of device nodes for you and will
110	create your initial /etc/fstab.  The Installer program also has an
111	option to give you a mini-shell.  Do not use this unless you are
112	sure know what you are doing.
113
114	When you are finished installing all of the sets you wish to
115	install, exit the Installer by choosing "Quit" from the "File" menu.
116	
117**** Booting the system
118
119Prior to attempting to boot NetBSD/mac68k, please verify that all of
120the following are true:
121
122	1) 32-bit addressing is enabled[*] in the Memory control panel;
123
124	2) All forms of virtual memory are disabled (the Memory control
125	   panel, RAM Doubler, or other software-based memory enhancement
126	   products); and
127
128	3) Your system is in B&W mode (1-bit color or grayscale) as shown
129	   by the Monitors control panel.  You may choose to have the 
130	   Booter do this for you automatically by selecting the appropriate
131	   check box and radio button in the "Monitors" dialog on the
132	   "Options" menu.
133
134It is probably best to boot your machine with all extensions turned
135off[*].  You can do this by booting into MacOS with the SHIFT key held
136down.  You may have to restart your Macintosh for changes to take effect
137before proceeding.  
138
139[* NOTE:  If you have an older II-class system (including the II, IIx, IIcx,
140and SE/30), it is necessary to install Connectix's MODE32 to work around
141ROM issues which prevent you from enabling 32-bit addressing.  Please see
142<http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/> for more information.]
143
144Double-click on the NetBSD/mac68k Booter icon to start the application.
145Select "Booting" from the "Options" menu.  Check that all of the items in
146the resulting dialog look sane--especially the SCSI ID.  If not, correct
147them to your preference (the SCSI ID should be the only thing you need to
148change).  When you are satisfied with your choices, try booting NetBSD by
149selecting "Boot Now" from the "Options" menu.
150
151If you wish to save your preferences, choose "Save Options" from the
152"File" menu before Booting (your preferences will not be saved if you
153forget to do this).
154
155If the system does not come up, send mail to scottr@netbsd.org describing
156your software, your hardware, and as complete a description of the
157problem as you can.
158
159If the system does come up, congratulations, you have successfully
160installed NetBSD _VER.  When you first boot into NetBSD, it will
161automatically drop you into single-user mode with the root filesystem
162mounted read-write.  The system will ask you to choose a shell.  Simply hit
163return to get to a prompt.  If you are asked for a terminal type, respond
164with 'vt220' and hit return.  At this point, you need to configure at least
165one file in the /etc directory.  Change to the /etc directory and take a
166look at the /etc/rc.conf file.  Modify it to your tastes, making sure that
167you set "rc_configured=YES" so that your changes will be enabled and a
168multi-user boot can proceed.  If your /usr directory is on a separate
169partition and you do not know how to use 'ed' or 'ex', you will have to
170mount your /usr partition to gain access to 'vi'.  Do the following:
171
172mount /usr
173export TERM=vt220
174
175You can then edit /etc/rc.conf with 'vi'.  When you have finished, type
176'exit' at the prompt to leave the single-user shell and continue with the
177multi-user boot.  You should log in as "root" at the login prompt.  There
178is no initial password, but if you're using the machine in a networked
179environment, you should create yourself an account and protect it and the
180"root" account with good passwords.  Please see the adduser(8) man page for
181more information on how to add a new user. 
182
183Some of the files in the NetBSD _VER distribution might need to be
184tailored for your site.  In particular, if you have installed the X11
185distribution sets, you will need to edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file to
186look something like:
187
188# add the X shared libraries to the runtime linker search path
189/usr/X11R6/lib
190
191Also, don't forget to add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path in your shell's dot
192file so that you have access to the X binaries.  Many other files in /etc
193will probably need to be modified, as well.  Most of these files are
194described in section 5 of the manual pages.  If you are unfamiliar with
195UN*X-like operating systems or system administration, it's recommended that
196you buy a book that discusses it.  
197