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From: windsor@cbs.ksu.ksu.edu (Rob Windsor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD-current] How to install it?
Date: 8 May 1994 16:03:39 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
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I'm fairly new at sysadmin'ng unix, and I just recently installed current.
I'll outline the steps that I did to do it (and what's different from
what I was told to do if you don't have my exact configuration). I haven't
obtained permission to reveal my source of advice (and won't until then due
to his e-mail load), so I can't do that at the moment.
A little into to my setup:
I have wd0a as /, wd0e as a 20M /blah, wd0f as /usr, and wd1a as
/usr/local. I'm running ESDI drives on a ISA system, so I used the
'netbsd-aha' kernel image.
0> Always step 0, back up your existing system. I just installed NetBSD,
so it wouldn't have broken my heart to reinstall if this went bad. But,
I did keep a backup of /etc/* since I worked a bit on disktab and the
accounts.
1> (as mentioned in previous posting) grab the binary snapshot files off of
ftp.iastate.edu, as well as a kernel image.
2> While you're there, you should probably get the kernel source tar file.
/pub/netbsd/NetBSD-current/src/tar_files/src/sys.tar.gz
3> Have your NetBSD 0.9 kernel-copy ('kc-aha-09') and install floppies
(inst[1|2]-09) handy. I copied (-R) inst2 to /blah. An alternative
is to put inst2 onto a 5-1/4" (you need to mount both flops at once).
4> Boot your machine up off of the hd and dump the tar.gz files onto
a spare partition where there's room. (/usr/local for me.) Also,
if your account or root has a shell other than /bin/csh or /bin/sh,
you should update .profile and chsh to change it back to one of the
two.
5> While in, mount your first install floppy and make two more mount points
(mkdir -p) on it. /mnt2 and /mnt3 for me. Unmount the flop.
6> Reboot the machine, this time off of the kernel-copy floppy (and insert
the first install floppy when asked). When asked to continue, press
<return> (default is [n]).
7> fsck, and then mount your / onto /mnt and /usr onto /mnt/usr. Mount
/blah (or the 5-1/4" flop) onto /mnt2, and /usr/local onto /mnt3. Add
/mnt2/bin and /mnt2/usr/bin to the path.
8> To untar, cd /mnt and then start 'tar -zxvf /mnt3/<tar file>'. You will
probably get some complaints on 'file exists' when the tar file tries to
create soft-links. I cleaned the directory out entirely before I
untarred the files to avoid those. Also, don't blindly untar etc.tar.gz
since this will hose your existing disktab, fstab, passwd, etc. I put
them into /mnt/etc/new and copied it by hand. This is probably the most
tedious of the entire process, but refreshing when done.
9> Move /mnt/netbsd to something else. I used /mnt/netbsd-0.9. Copy the
kernel image from /mnt3 to /mnt.
10> Reboot. If there is a umount command available, you should try to
unmount what you can (I didn't).
If things went well, you should have NetBSD-current up and running.
As I said earlier, I'm rather new at this sysadmin stuff, so I'm still
figuring out how to get things to compile and such. I just kept notes on
what I did to install current and posted them since my transition was
successful.
No guarantees on answers, but I'll take any questions. :>
-- Rob
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