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>>> transfer installation file system to the swap partition. 15>>> Does this go here, or in the hard disk prep section? 16 17>>> Getting loadbsd, ixemul.library, and netbsd onto AmigaDOS 18>>> partition. 19 Next you need to get yourself into NetBSD by loading the 20 kernel from AmigaDOS with loadbsd 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. Note which 26 hard disk device(s) are configured (sd0, sd1, etc). Then 27 you will be prompted for a root device. At this time type 28 'sd0*'. 29>>> Need to document what device number to actually use. 30 31 The system should continue to boot. For now ignore WARNING: 32 messages about bad dates in clocks and swap space. Eventually 33>>> ^^^^^^^^^^??? 34 you will be asked to enter the pathname of the shell, just 35 hit return. After a short while you should see a welcome 36 message and a prompt, asking if you wish to proceed with the 37 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 its 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 base11 114 115 and to extract the games distribution: 116 117 Extract game11 118 119 If the distribution sets are in different directories, 120 you will need to cd to each directory in turn, runing 121 "Set_tmp_dir" and the appropriate "Extract" command(s). 122 123 Continue this process until you've finished installing 124 all of the sets which you desire to have on your 125 hard disk. Once you have extracted all sets and 126 are at the "#" prompt again, proceed to the section 127 "Configuring Your System," below. 128 129 To install from tape: 130 131 The first thing you should do is pick a temporary 132 directory where the distribution files can be stored. 133 To do this, use the command "Set_tmp_dir" and enter 134 your choice. The default is /mnt/usr/distrib. 135 136 After you have picked a temporary directory, 137 you should issue the load command: 138 139 Load_tape 140 141 Next, you will be told to insert the media into 142 the appropriate drive, and hit return. Continue 143 to follow instructions until you are returned to 144 the "#" prompt. 145 146 Go to the directory which contains the first 147 distribution set you wish to install. This is 148 either the directory you specified above, or possibly 149 a subdirectory of that directory. 150 151 When there, run "Set_tmp_dir" again, and choose 152 the default temporary directory, by hitting 153 return at the prompt. 154 155 Run the "Extract" command, giving it as its sole 156 argument the name of the distribution set you 157 wish to extract. For example, to extract the base 158 distribution, use the command: 159 160 Extract base11 161 162 and to extract the games distribution: 163 164 Extract game11 165 166 After the extraction is complete, go to the location 167 of the next set you want to extract, "Set_tmp_dir" 168 again, and once again issue the appropriate 169 extract command. Continue this process until 170 you've finished installing all of the sets which you 171 desire to have on your hard disk. 172 173 After each set is finished, if you know that you 174 are running low on space you can remove the 175 distribution files for that set by saying: 176 177 rm set_name.?? 178 179 For example, if you wish to remove the distribution 180 files for the game09 set, after the "Extract game09" 181 command has completed, issue the command: 182 183 rm game11.?? 184 185 Once you have extracted all sets and are at the "#" prompt 186 again, proceed to the section "Configuring Your System," 187 below. 188 189 To install via FTP or NFS: 190 191 First, use Set_tmp_dir to pick a temporary directory 192 for the installation files. /mnt/usr/distrib is 193 suggested. 194 195>>> Document using ppp or slip? 196 Configure the appropriate ethernet interface i.e. le0 197 if you have a 2065 or ed0 if you have a AMIGNET from 198 Hydra Systems. 199 200 ifconfig <ifname> <ipaddr> [netmask <netmask>] 201 202 where <ifname> is the interface name (e.g. ed0, etc.), 203 and <ipaddr> is the numeric IP address of the interface. 204 If the interface has a special netmask, supply 205 the word "netmask" and that netmask at the end of the 206 command line. For instance, without a special netmask: 207 208 ifconfig ed0 129.133.10.10 209 210 or with a special netmask 211 212 ifconfig ed0 128.32.240.167 netmask 0xffffff00 213 214 If the NFS server or FTP server is not on a directly- 215 connected network, you should set up a route to it 216 with the command: 217 218 route add default <gate_ipaddr> 219 220 where <gate_ipaddr> is your gateway's numeric IP address. 221 222 If you are NFS-mounting the distribution sets, 223 mount them on the temporary directory with the command: 224 225 mount -t nfs <serv_ipaddr>:<dist_dir> <tmp_dir> 226 227 where <serv_ipaddr> is the server's numeric IP address, 228 <dist_dir> is the path to the distribution files on 229 the server, and <tmp_dir> is the name of the local 230 temporary directory. 231 232 Once this is done, proceed as if you had loaded the 233 files from tape, "cd"ing to the appropriate directories 234 and running "Set_tmp_dir" and "Extract" as appropriate. 235 236 If you are retrieving the distribution sets using ftp, 237 cd into the temp directory, and execute the command: 238 239 ftp <serv_ipaddr> 240 241 where <serv_ipaddr> is once again the server's 242 numeric IP address. Get the files with FTP, 243 taking care to use binary mode to transfer 244 all files. 245 246 Once you have all of the files for the distribution sets 247 you wish to install, you can proceed using the instructions 248 above as if you had installed the files from a tape. 249 250 251Configuring Your System: 252----------- ---- ------ 253 254Once you have finished extracting all of the distribution sets that 255you want on your hard drive and are back at the "#" prompt, 256you are ready to configure your system. 257 258The configuration utility expects that you have installed the base 259system. If you have not, you will not be able to run it successfully 260(nor will you have a functional system regardless of configuration). 261 262To configure the newly installed operating system, run the 263command "Configure". 264 265Configure will ask for the machine's hostname, domain name, and other 266network configuration information. 267 268Once you have supplied `Configure' all that it requests, your machine 269will be configured well enough that when you reboot it it will 270almost be a completely functional NetBSD system. Note you should 271ignore the errors from `chown' they will be corrected shortly. 272 273Once you are done with `Configure', halt the system with the "halt" 274command (wait for "halted" to be displayed) and reboot. Then again 275boot NetBSD this time with the command: 276 277 278 loadbsd netbsd 279 280You need to do your final tweeks now. First mount your file systems 281like so: 282 283 mount -av 284 285Next you need to re-make your devices to get the ownership correct: 286 287 cd /dev 288 MAKEDEV all 289>>> Is this step still needed? - check on it! 290 291Your system is now complete but not completely configured; you 292should adjust the /etc/sendmail.cf file as necessary to suit your 293site and/or disable sendmail and other network related programs. 294These things can be found in /etc/netstart. Use vi, if you installed 295the man pages you can type `man vi' or `man ed' for instructions 296on how to use these somewhat non-intuitive editors. 297 298Once you are done with the rest of configuration unmount your file 299systems and halt your system, then reboot: 300 301 cd / 302 umount -av 303 halt 304 <reboot> 305 306Finally you can now boot your system and it will be completely 307functional: 308 309 loadbsd -a netbsd 310 311When it boots off of the hard drive, you will have a complete 312NetBSD system! CONGRATULATIONS! (You really deserve them!!!) 313 314>>> Missing the step to transfer the netbsd kernel to / 315