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Installation is supported from several media types, including:
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.Tn GEMDOS Ns / Ns Tn TOS No HD partitions
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Tape
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No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have three disks handy,
on which you will put the install and boot floppy images.
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All the images are available from the directory
.Pa installation/floppies
under the root of the
.Nx*M
tree at your favorite archive site.
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If you are using
.Nx*M
to make the floppies, you should use
the command
.Xr dd 1
to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to
the disk.
As an example, to write the first part of the miniroot file system
onto a 720 KB floppy in fd0 use:
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.Dl # Ic "dd if=miniroot.fs.1 of=/dev/rfd0b bs=9b"
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If you are using
.Tn TOS
to make the floppies, grab the
.Ic rawwrite
utility from the
.Pa \*M/utils
directory and issue the command:
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.Dl Ic "rawwrite boot.fs"
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This will create the boot-floppy on the floppy in drive a.
The floppies should be pre-formatted on 720 KB / 1.44 MB for both the
.Ic dd
and
.Ic rawwrite
commands to work.
Pre-formatting can be best done using the desktop format command.
Some other utilities seem to be giving problems.
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Since the 1.3 release, it is also possible to use HD-floppies.
You should than use the floppy device
.Pa /dev/rfd0c
or add the
.Fl H
flag to
.Ic rawwrite .
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The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
for installation depend on which method of installation
you choose.
The various methods are explained below.
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.It Tn GEMDOS
To install
.Nx
from a
.Tn GEMDOS
partition, you need to get the
.Nx
distribution sets you wish to install
on your system on to a
.Tn GEMDOS
partition.
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Note where you placed the files, you will need this later.
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
.It Em Tape
To install
.Nx
from a tape, you need to somehow
get the
.Nx
filesets you wish to install on
your system on to the appropriate kind of tape.
If you make the tape on a
.Ul
system, you can create it as follows:
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.Dl # Ic "cd .../NetBSD-\*V/\*M/binary/sets"
.Dl # Ic "T=\*[Lt]tape_device\*[Gt]"
.Dl # Ic "mt -f $T rewind"
.Dl # Ic "for f in base etc comp games man misc rescue text"
.Dl   Ic "\ \ \ \ dd if=$f.\*[setsuffix] of=$T conv=osync bs=5k"
.Dl # Ic "done"
.Dl # Ic "mt -f $T rewind"
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where
.Dq \*[Lt]tape_device\*[Gt]
is the name of the (non-rewinding!) tape
device that you're using (probably something like
.Pa /dev/nrst0 ,
but we make no guarantees 8-).
If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.
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Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
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