Boot with your prefered NetBSD install media, choose language, keyboard and exit sysinst,
language : english keyboard : your keyboard layout ^C
Note. if you ever wish to return to sysinst, no need to (re)execute it. Simply exit the shell or type sysinst.
And define a handy variable for the purpose of this guide,
dmesg | grep ^wd dmesg | grep ^sd dmesg | grep ^xbd disk=xbd0 cdrom=xbd1
On i386 or amd64, you need to configure the MBR and DOS kind of partition table.
Initialize the MBR and make an empty DOS partition table,
fdisk -i $disk Update the bootcode from /usr/mdec/mbr? [n] y Should we write new partition table? [n] y
Create the first partition using the whole disk (offset: sector 63), make the first partition ‘active’ and check,
fdisk -u -0 $disk (defaults // empty boot menu disables it) Should we write new partition table? [n] y fdisk -a -0 $disk active partition: [0..4 default: 0] Are you happy with this choice? [n] y Should we write new partition table? [n] y fdisk $disk
On all hardware plateforms, create a disk label,
disklabel -i $disk
E
P
a
Filesystem type [unused]: 4.2BSD
Start offset ('x' to start after partition 'x') [0c, 0s, 0M]: 63
Partition size ('$' for all remaining) [0c, 0s, 0M]: $
verify, write the label and quit,
P W Q
(Optional) On i386 or amd64, enable swap straight away,
#swapctl -a /dev/sd0b #swapctl -l
On all hardware plateforms, make an FFS file system and mount the root partition,
newfs /dev/r${disk}a
cd /
mount /dev/${disk}a mnt/
Mount the install media,
mkdir /cdrom
mount_cd9660 /dev/${cdrom}a /cdrom
Note. mount_cd9660 prefers absolute path destination, which is not the case for mount_ffs
or mount the NFS share,
mount -t nfs x.x.x.x:/var/data/netbsd61sparc mnt2
And proceed with the installation,
cd /cdrom/amd64/binary/sets
#cd /mnt2/
tar xvzphfe kern-GENERIC.tgz -C /mnt
#tar xvzphfe kern-GENERIC.MP.tgz -C /mnt
tar xvzphfe modules.tgz -C /mnt
for set in base comp etc man misc tests text; do
echo -n $set...
tar xzphfe $set.tgz -C /mnt && echo done
done; unset set
Note. on sparc, kern-GENERIC.MP works for both, single and multi-cpu.
Install the boot loader, on sparc,
cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt/ installboot -v /dev/rsd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx /boot
On i386 or amd64,
cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt dumpfs -s /dev/rwd0a | grep ^format installboot -v -o timeout=3 /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
Generate the device files,
chroot /mnt cd dev ./MAKEDEV all
Further configure the system (using vi in the chrooted environment),
cd /etc #ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris localtime ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Moscow localtime vi rc.conf rc_configured=yes
For a XEN guest,
#xen wscons=no no_swap=yes savecore=no cat /etc/ttys #fine already
For a normal system,
wscons=yes
and eventually fix the wscons keyboard layout,
cd /etc/ cp wscons.conf wscons.conf.dist vi wscons.conf #encoding fr
Don’t forget to setup the fstab (using vi in the chrooted environment),
cd /etc/
cat > fstab <<EOF9
/dev/${disk}a / ffs rw,log 1 1
#/dev/sd0b none swap sw 0 0
EOF9
Note. add /kern if you want kernfs
Exit the chroot, finish up and reboot,
^D umount /mnt cd umount /cdrom reboot #halt -p