. Installation is supported from several media types, including:
p .(bullet -compact -offset indent .Tn GEMDOS Ns / Ns Tn TOS No HD partitions t Tape .bullet)
p 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.
p All the images are available from the directory
a installation/floppies under the root of the .Nx*M tree at your favorite archive site.
p 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:
p .Dl # Ic "dd if=miniroot.fs.1 of=/dev/rfd0b bs=9b"
p If you are using .Tn TOS to make the floppies, grab the c rawwrite utility from the
a \*M/utils directory and issue the command:
p .Dl Ic "rawwrite boot.fs"
p 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 c dd and c rawwrite commands to work. Pre-formatting can be best done using the desktop format command. Some other utilities seem to be giving problems.
p Since the 1.3 release, it is also possible to use HD-floppies. You should than use the floppy device
a /dev/rfd0c or add the .Fl H flag to c rawwrite .
p The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for installation depend on which method of installation you choose. The various methods are explained below. .(tag GEMDOSxx t 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.
p Note where you placed the files, you will need this later.
p Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. t 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 l system, you can create it as follows:
p .Dl # Ic "cd .../NetBSD-\*V/\*M/binary/sets" .Dl # Ic "T=\*<tape_device\*>" .Dl # Ic "mt -f $T rewind" .Dl # Ic "for f in base etc comp games man misc text" .Dl Ic " dd if=$f.tgz of=$T conv=sync bs=5k" .Dl # Ic "done" .Dl # Ic "mt -f $T rewind"
p where .Dq \*<tape_device\*> is the name of the (non-rewinding!) tape device that you're using (probably something like
a /dev/nrst0 , but we make no guarantees 8-). If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.
p Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.