1Installation is supported from several media types, including: 2 NFS partitions 3 FTP 4 Tape 5 6The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets 7for installation depend on which method of installation 8you choose. The various methods are explained below. 9 10To prepare for installing via an NFS partition: 11 12 Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into 13 a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory 14 mountable by the machine which you will be installing 15 NetBSD on. This will probably require modifying the 16 /etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting 17 mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges. 18 Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of 19 the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine, 20 if the NFS server is not on a network which is 21 directly attached to the NetBSD machine. 22 23 If you are using a diskless setup to install NetBSD on 24 your machine, you can take advantage of the fact that 25 the above has already been done on your machine's server. 26 So, you can conveniently put the NetBSD filesets in your 27 machine's root filesystem on the server where the install 28 program can find them. 29 30 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 31 step in the installation process, preparing your 32 system for NetBSD installation. 33 34 35To prepare for installing via FTP: 36 37 NOTE: this method of installation is recommended 38 only for those already familiar with using 39 the BSD network-manipulation commands and 40 interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation 41 should help, but is not intended to be 42 all-encompassing. 43 44 The preparations for this method of installation 45 are easy: all you have to do is make sure that 46 there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve 47 the NetBSD installation when it's time to do 48 the install. You should know the numeric IP 49 address of that site, the numeric IP address of 50 your nearest router if one is necessary 51 52 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 53 step in the installation process, preparing your 54 system for NetBSD installation. 55 56 57To prepare for installing via a tape: 58 59 To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow 60 get the NetBSD filesets you wish to install on 61 your system on to the appropriate kind of tape, 62 in tar format. 63 64 If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest 65 way to do so is: 66 67 tar cvf <tape_device> <files> 68 69 where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device 70 that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly 71 something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-). 72 Under SunOS 5.x, this would be something like /dev/rmt/0mbn. 73 Again, your mileage may vary. If you can't figure it out, 74 ask your system administrator. "<files>" are the names 75 of the "set_name.nnn" files which you want to be placed 76 on the tape. 77 78 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next 79 step in the installation process, preparing your 80 system for NetBSD installation. 81