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3 Installation is supported from several media types, including:
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6 .Tn GEMDOS Ns / Ns Tn TOS No HD partitions
11 No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have three disks handy,
12 on which you will put the install and boot floppy images.
14 All the images are available from the directory
15 .Pa installation/floppies
18 tree at your favorite archive site.
22 to make the floppies, you should use
25 to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to
27 As an example, to write the first part of the miniroot file system
28 onto a 720 KB floppy in fd0 use:
30 .Dl # Ic "dd if=miniroot.fs.1 of=/dev/rfd0b bs=9b"
34 to make the floppies, grab the
38 directory and issue the command:
40 .Dl Ic "rawwrite boot.fs"
42 This will create the boot-floppy on the floppy in drive a.
43 The floppies should be pre-formatted on 720 KB / 1.44 MB for both the
48 Pre-formatting can be best done using the desktop format command.
49 Some other utilities seem to be giving problems.
51 Since the 1.3 release, it is also possible to use HD-floppies.
52 You should than use the floppy device
59 The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
60 for installation depend on which method of installation
62 The various methods are explained below.
69 partition, you need to get the
71 distribution sets you wish to install
72 on your system on to a
76 Note where you placed the files, you will need this later.
78 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
79 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
83 from a tape, you need to somehow
86 filesets you wish to install on
87 your system on to the appropriate kind of tape.
88 If you make the tape on a
90 system, you can create it as follows:
92 .Dl # Ic "cd .../NetBSD-\*V/\*M/binary/sets"
93 .Dl # Ic "T=\*[Lt]tape_device\*[Gt]"
94 .Dl # Ic "mt -f $T rewind"
95 .Dl # Ic "for f in base etc comp games man misc text"
96 .Dl Ic "\ \ \ \ dd if=$f.tgz of=$T conv=osync bs=5k"
98 .Dl # Ic "mt -f $T rewind"
101 .Dq \*[Lt]tape_device\*[Gt]
102 is the name of the (non-rewinding!) tape
103 device that you're using (probably something like
105 but we make no guarantees 8-).
106 If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.
108 Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
109 step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.