. A \*M machine usually needs little or no preparation before installing .Nx , other than the usual, well advised precaution of .Em backing up all data on any attached storage devices.
p . .Ss2 Available Boot Media . Currently the \*M Cyclone firmware allows for system booting using: .(bullet -compact Ethernet (netboot) using DHCP, BOOTP, TFTP, or NFS. t Local harddisk or CD ROM with the following file systems: .(bullet -compact Berkeley FFS t Linux ext2 t ISO9660 CD-ROM file system t MS-DOS file system .bullet) .bullet)
p Booting from floppy disk is not currently supported. . .Ss2 Preparing the Bootable Media . This section desribes how to get a .Nx*M install kernel onto a CD-R.
p Go to one of the .Nx mirror sites and download CD-R image from the
a pub/NetBSD/iso directory. .Lk http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/#iso
p Get and install cdrecord. This is available in the packages collection under pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrecord. Systems not supported by the packages collection should get it from the official website:
.Lk ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrecord/README.html
.Lk http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
p .(disp .No # Ic "cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=/dev/cd1d output.iso" .disp)
p You will need to substitute the correct name of the disk image file, speed for your CD writer, and the correct device for your system (for i386 it would be
a /dev/cd1d No Ns ). . .Ss2 Booting from CD-ROM . To boot from a CD-ROM simply issue the following command
p .(disp .No boot> Ic "boot cd0:/netbsd" .disp)