dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.19 2002/04/07 21:25:00 miod Exp $ OpenBSDInstallPrelude The installation can be broken down into four basic steps: * Running Mkfs to build a filesystem or filesystems. * Running Install Utility to load the files onto your filesystems. * Running the booter to boot the system. * Final system configuration. Preparing the filesystems: Double-click on the Mkfs application icon to start it up. It will ask you for the SCSI ID of the drive that you are installing upon. Once this is selected, it will present a list of the partitions on that disk. Select the partition on which you wish to build a filesystem and click on the "Format" button. You will now be asked for a bunch of parameters for the hard drive and the filesystem. Usually, you can just take the defaults. Note that although this dialog only has the "OK" button, you are not committed, yet. Once you get the values you want, press the "OK" button. A dialog will be presented at this point with two options: "Format" and "Cancel." If you choose "Cancel," nothing will be written to your drive. If you choose "Format," the program will proceed to make a filesystem. Mkfs is not a well-behaved MacOS application. It will not allow any other tasks to run while it does (cooperative multitasking at its best). When it's finished, the program will put up a dialog to ask if you have scanned the output for any error messages. Usually there won't have been any errors, but do scan the output to make sure. Simply click on the "I Read It" button and the program will quit. Repeat as necessary for any extra partitions that you wish to make filesystems on. Note that you do _not_ need a filesystem on your swap partition. Installing the distribution sets: Double-click on the Install Utility icon to start it up. The installer will present the same SCSI ID menu that mkfs did. Select the same SCSI ID that you did for mkfs--i.e., the one you are installing onto. If you are installing onto a single root partition, proceed to the "Installing the base files" section, below. If you have not created filesystems for the root, usr, and any other partitions, go back to "Preparing the filesystem(s)," above. When you started the installer, it mounted your root partition. Just before it printed, "Mounting partition 'A' as /," it printed lines like: sd1 at scsi ID 5. This means that the device for scsi ID 5 is sd1. The partitions are signified by a trailing letter. For instance, sd1a would be the root partition of the second scsi disk in the chain, and sd0g would be the first usr partition on the first scsi disk. It is important to emphasize that device numbers after the 'sd' do not correspond to SCSI IDs of disks but rather to logical disks. The lowest SCSI ID will always be sd0 proceeded by increasing ID numbers. You will need to know the proper device to mount the remaining partition(s) by hand: * Select "Build Devices" from the "File" menu. This builds the necessary tree of device files on your filesystem in /dev. * Select "Mini Shell" from the "File" menu. * Mount the filesystems you wish with the command: mount device path For example, if you wish to mount the second partition from the first scsi disk, sd0, on /usr, you would type: mount /dev/sd0b /usr * Type "quit" to exit the minishell after you have mounted all the filesystems. Installation of base files: Select the "Install" menu item from the "File" menu and install base{:--:}OSrev.tgz, bsd-generic.tgz, comp{:--:}OSrev.tgz, and any other packages you wish to install at this time (see the contents section for information about what's in each package). The installer will print out the filename of each file as it is installed and will take quite some time to install everything. As is the case with Mkfs, this is not a particularly well-behaved MacOS application and the machine will be completely tied up while the installation takes place. At some point after installing the base package, select the "Build Devices" option from the "File" menu. This will create a bunch of device nodes for you in /dev and your initial /etc/fstab. The installer program also has an option to give you a mini-shell. Booting the system: Double-click on the BSD/Mac68k Booter icon to start the application. Check that the options in the Booting dialog look sane--especially the SCSI ID. If not, correct them to your preference. You will have to change the kernel name to "/bsd". When you are satisfied with your choices, try booting OpenBSD. If you wish to save your preferences, choose the "Save Preferences" option in the "File" menu, then quit the application and restart. Due to a long-standing bug, the preferences will not be saved unless you quit. Note that by setting the BSD/Mac68k Booter to boot automatically after starting, and by placing an alias to the booter in the "Startup Items" folder, one can make the Mac68k autoload OpenBSD upon startup. Note that on a Mac68k, the generation of the DSA and RSA keys can take quite some time -- on a slower system, it may take an hour or more. Be patient. Final Configuration: Unlike other OpenBSD platforms, OpenBSD/MACHINE OSREV does not configure the network or set a root password as part of the installation process. The user will have to do this after the first OpenBSD boot. Upon first boot, root will have no password, just hit RETURN when prompted. You will want to set the root password using the passwd(1) command. To set up basic networking, you will need to create or edit the following files, all of which are in the /etc directory: myname the computers name (without domain). mygate the IP address of the default gateway. hostname.if Configuration of the host adapter (actual name will be something like hostname.sn0 or hostname.ae0, see your dmesg for your adapter name). resolv.conf Name server configuration. hosts names and IP addresses of this machine and others on the network. dhclient.conf dhcp client information. Once these files are configured, your system will be very much like any other OpenBSD system. 'mygate' and 'myname' are just single-line text files, for info on the others, see hostname.if(5), resolv.conf(5), hosts(5) and dhclient.conf(5) in the OpenBSD man pages. OpenBSDCongratulations