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diff --git a/distrib/notes/amiga/xfer b/distrib/notes/amiga/xfer index 3311f7a2ac9..bd53c10d7a3 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/amiga/xfer +++ b/distrib/notes/amiga/xfer @@ -1,18 +1,17 @@ Installation is supported from several media types, including: - AmigaDOS Fast file system partitions + CD-ROM FFS partitions + AmigaDOS Fast file system partitions Tape Remote NFS partition FTP HTTP -The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for -installation depend on which method of installation you choose. -The various methods are explained below. However, for all methods -you need to transfer a OpenBSD kernel binary to your AmigaDOS -partition, optionally you must also get the miniroot image there -for later transfer to your swap partition as explained elsewhere. +However, whichever method you choose, you need to transfer a OpenBSD +kernel binary to your AmigaDOS partition. Optionally you must also get +the miniroot image there for later transfer to your swap partition as +explained earlier. For ramdisk installs you need to get both the bsd and bsd.rd kernel images, and for miniroot installs you need bsd and the miniroot{:--:}OSrev.fs image. @@ -36,69 +35,12 @@ To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition: Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. -To prepare for installing via a tape: - - To install OpenBSD from a tape, you need to somehow - get the OpenBSD filesets you wish to install on - your system on to the appropriate kind of tape, - in tar format. - - If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest - way to do so is: - - tar cvf <tape_device> <files> - - where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device - that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly - something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-). - If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator. - "<files>" are the names of the "set_name{:--:}OSrev.tgz" files - which you want to be placed on the tape. - - Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next - step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. -To prepare for installing via NFS: +OpenBSDXferShortPrelude - Place the OpenBSD software you wish to install into - a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory - mountable by the machine which you will be installing - OpenBSD on. This will probably require modifying the - /etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting - mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges. - Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of - the router closest to the new OpenBSD machine, - if the NFS server is not on a network which is - directly attached to the OpenBSD machine. - - Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next - step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. - -To prepare for installing via FTP/HTTP: - - The preparations for this method of installation - are easy: all you have to do is make sure that - there's some FTP- or website from which you can - retrieve the OpenBSD installation when it's time to - do the install. You should know the numeric IP - address of that site, and the numeric IP address of - your nearest router if one is necessary - - Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next - step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk. -If you are upgrading OpenBSD, you also have the option of installing -OpenBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing -file system, and using them from there. To do that, you must do the -following: +OpenBSDXferBareTape(xbase xfont xserv xshare) - Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in - your current file system tree. At a bare minimum, you must - upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the - "base{:--:}OSrev.tgz" set somewhere in your file system. If you wish, - you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade - the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system - configuration files that you should review and update by hand. +OpenBSDXferNFS - Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in - the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system. +OpenBSDXferFFS |