INSTALLATION NOTES for NetBSD/amiga 1.0 Be sure to read _ALL_ of this document before you try to install NetBSD/amiga. What is NetBSD? ---- -- ------ NetBSD is a Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2) and 4.4BSD-Lite -derived system. It is a fully functional UN*X-like system which runs on several architectures and is being ported to more. NetBSD, as the name implies, is a creation of the members of the network community and without the net it's likely that this release wouldn't have come about. NetBSD 1.0 is a milestone release. The hardest part of the 4.4BSD-Lite integration, the kernel, has been completed and has been running in "production use" for quite some time. Also, NetBSD 1.0 is the first true multi-architecture release of NetBSD. At the time of NetBSD 0.9, the i386 port was considered 'production quality' and the hp300 port was barely working. The NetBSD 1.0 source supports nine architectures, and complete binary releases for most of them will be made available. NetBSD 1.0 supports many new and improved features, the most important relating to file systems. New and improved versions of both the Berkeley Fast File System and the free implementation of the NFS protocol were provided, as part of the 4.4-Lite release. The new versions include such improvements as support for 64-bit file sizes, for local files, and "lease" support for NFS, to improve performance. In addition to the file system improvements, many other parts of the system have been improved considerably. For instance, the virtual memory code has substantially improved performance, and many of the kernel's interfaces have been cleaned up. Many new user programs have been added in NetBSD 1.0, as well, bringing it closer to our goal of supplying a complete UN*X-like environment. Additionally, support for shared libraries has been added, for most architectures, allowing a significant savings in both RAM consumption and disk space. This is the first public release of NetBSD for the Amiga line of computers. The Future of NetBSD: --- ------ -- ------ We hope to have regular releases of the full binary and source trees, but these are difficult to coordinate, especially with all of the architectures which we now support! We hope to support even _more_ hardware in the future, and have a rather large number of other ideas about what can be done to improve NetBSD. We intend to continue our current practice of making the NetBSD-current development source available on a daily or nearly-daily basis. We intend to integrate free, positive changes from whatever sources will provide them, providing that they are well thought-out and increase the usability of the system. This includes integrating the remainder of the 4.4BSD-Lite tape, as quickly as we can ensure that everything works properly. Above all, we hope to create a stable and accessible system, and to be responsive to the needs and desires of NetBSD users, because it is for and because of them that NetBSD exists. Sources of NetBSD: ------- -- ------ Host name Services Provided ---- ---- -------- -------- ftp.iastate.edu Anonymous FTP, AFS Anon-FTP path: pub/netbsd/NetBSD-1.0 AFS path: /afs/iastate.edu/public/ftp/pub/netbsd/NetBSD-1.0 ftp.eecs.umich.edu Anonymous FTP Anon-FTP path: BSD/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0 gatekeeper.dec.com Anonymous FTP Anon-FTP path: pub/BSD/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0 wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de Anonymous FTP, SUP Anon-FTP path: pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0 SUP: get the file pub/misc/sup/supfile.example via anonymous FTP and read it as an example. ftp.demon.co.uk Anonymous FTP, possibly SUP Anon-FTP path: pub/BSD/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0 SUP: contact peter@demon.net for SUP server status/information ftp.uni-regensburg.de Anonymous FTP Anon-FTP path: pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0 ftp.unit.no Anonymous FTP Anon-FTP path: pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0 ftp.stacken.kth.se Anonymous FTP Anon-FTP path: pub/OS/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0 flick.lerc.nasa.gov Anonymous FTP Anon-FTP path: pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0 coombs.anu.edu.au Anonymous FTP Anon-FTP path: pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0 ftp.netbsd.org Anonymous FTP, SUP Anon-FTP path: pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.0 SUP: get the file pub/sup/README.sup via anonymous FTP from ftp.netbsd.org, and read it for instructions. If you wish to become a distribution site for NetBSD, contact Chris Demetriou . NetBSD 1.0 Release Contents: ------ --- ------- -------- The NetBSD 1.0 release is organized in the following way: .../NetBSD-1.0/ BUGS Known bugs list (incomplete and out of date). CHANGES Changes since NetBSD's last release (and before). LAST_MINUTE Last minute changes. MIRRORS A list of sites that mirror the NetBSD 1.0 distribution. README.files README describing the distribution's contents. TODO NetBSD's todo list (incomplete and out of date). patches/ Post-release source code patches. source/ Source distribution sets; see below. In addition to the files and directories listed above, there is one directory per architecture, for each of the architectures that NetBSD 1.0 has a binary distribution for. There are also 'README.export-control' files sprinkled liberally throughout the distribution tree, which point out that there are some portions of the distribution (e.g. those containing crypt(3)) that should not be exported from the United States, and that if you do export them, it's your fault, not ours. The source distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "source" subdirectory of the distribution tree. They contain the complete sources to the system, excluding those portions which should not be exported from the U.S. (Those are contained in each architecture's "security" binary distribution set.) The source distribution sets are as follows: gsrc10 This set contains the "gnu" sources, including the source for the compiler, assembler, groff, and the other GNU utilities in the binary distribution sets. [ 7.7M gzipped, 32.0M uncompressed ] ksrc10 This set contains the sources to the NetBSD 1.0 kernel, config(8), config.new(8) and dbsym(8). [ 4.5M gzipped, 20.8M uncompressed ] ssrc10 This set contains the "share" sources, which include the sources for the man pages not associated with any particular program, the sources for the typesettable document set, the dictionaries, and more. [ 2.3M gzipped, 8.5M uncompressed ] src10 This set contains all of the NetBSD 1.0 sources which are not mentioned above. [ 7.1M gzipped, 33.4M uncompressed ] It is worth noting that unless all of the source distribution sets are installed, you can't rebuild and install the system from scratch, straight out of the box. However, all that is required to rebuild the system in that case is a trivial modification to one Makefile. The source distribution sets are distributed as groups of files named "set_name.xx" where "set_name" is the distribution set name, and "xx" is the sequence number of the file, starting with "aa" for the first file in the distribution set, then "ab" for the next, and so on. All of these files except the last one of each set should be exactly 240,640 bytes long. (The last file is just long enough to contain the remainder of the data for that distribution set.) Catted together, the files belonging to a source distribution set comprise a gzipped tar file. If you want to look at list of the files contained in the set, you could use the command: cat set_name.?? | gunzip | tar tvf - or to actually extract the files contained in the set: cat set_name.?? | gunzip | tar xfp - In each of the source distribution set directories, there is a file named "CKSUMS" which contains the checksums of the files in that directory, as generated by the cksum(1) command. You can use cksum to check the integrity of the archives, if you suspect that one of the files is corrupt and have access to a cksum binary. The amiga-specific portion of the NetBSD 1.0 release is found in the "amiga" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is layed out as follows: .../NetBSD-1.0/amiga/ binary/ amiga binary distribution sets; see below. floppies/ amiga boot and installation floppies; see below. security/ amiga security distribution; see below; utils/ Miscellaneous amiga installation utilities; see installation section, below. There are two amiga floppy images to be found in the "amiga/floppy" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.0 distribution. One of them is a bootable AmigaDOS kernel floppy and one is an installation floppy. They are described in more detail below. There are gzipped versions of each available, for easier downloading. (The gzipped version have the ".gz" extension added to their names.) Bootable Kernel floppy: This AmigaDOS disk contains the loadbsd boot program and the GENERIC kernel. It is setup so that you can insert it int your floppy drive, reboot the system and boot netbsd. This floppy is named boot-10.fs Installation floppy: This disk contains a BSD root file system setup to help you install the rest of NetBSD. This includes formatting and mounting your root and /usr partitions and getting ready to extract (and possibly first fetching) the distribution sets. There is enough on this file system to allow you to make a slip connection, configure an ethernet, mount an NFS file system or ftp. You can also load distribution sets from a SCSI tape or from one of your existing AmigaDOS partitions. This floppy is named "inst-10.fs". The NetBSD/amiga binary distribution sets contain the binaries which comprise the NetBSD 1.0 release for the amiga. There are seven binary distribution sets, and the "security" distribution set. The binary distribution sets can be found in subdirectories of the "amiga/binary" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.0 distribution tree, and are as follows: base10 The NetBSD/amiga 1.0 base binary distribution. You MUST install this distribution set. It contains the base NetBSD utilities that are necessary for the system to run and be minimally functional. It includes shared library support, and excludes everything described below. [ 7M gzipped, 19M uncompressed ] comp10 The NetBSD/amiga Compiler tools. All of the tools relating to C, C++, and FORTRAN (yes, there are two!). This set includes the system include files (/usr/include), the linker, the compiler tool chain, and the various system libraries (except the shared libraries, which are included as part of the base set). This set also includes the manual pages for all of the utilities it contains, as well as the system call and library manual pages. [ 4M gzipped, 12M uncompressed ] etc10 This distribution set contains the system configuration files that reside in /etc and in several other places. This set MUST be installed if you are installing the system from scratch, but should NOT be used if you are upgrading. (If you are upgrading, it's recommended that you get a copy of this set and CAREFULLY upgrade your configuration files by hand.) [ 50K gzipped, 280K uncompressed ] games10 This set includes the games and their manual pages. [ 1M gzipped, 3M uncompressed ] man10 This set includes all of the manual pages for the binaries and other software contained in the base set. Note that it does not include any of the manual pages that are included in the other sets. [ 730K gzipped, 3M uncompressed ] misc10 This set includes the system dictionaries (which are rather large), the typesettable document set, and man pages for other architectures which happen to be installed from the source tree by default. [ 2M gzipped, 6M uncompressed ] text10 This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, including groff, all related programs, and their manual pages. [ 784K gzipped, 3M uncompressed ] The amiga security distribution set is named "secr10" and can be found in the "amiga/security" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.0 distribution tree. It contains crypt.c (the source file for the DES encryption algorithm) and the binaries which depend on it. It can only be found on those sites which carry the complete NetBSD distribution and that can legally obtain it. (Remember, because of United States law, this distribution set may not be exported to locations outside of the United States and Canada.) [ 119K gzipped, 300K uncompressed ] The amiga binary distribution sets are distributed in the same form as the source distribution sets; catted together, the members of a set form a gzipped tar file. Each amiga binary distribution set also has its own "CKSUMS" file, just as the source distribution sets do. The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xvfp" from /. Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced. If you follow the normal installation or upgrade procedures, this will be taken care of for you. NetBSD System Requirements and Supported Devices: ------ ------ ------------ --- --------- ------- NetBSD/amiga 1.0 runs on any amiga that has a 68020 or better CPU with some form of FPU and MMU. The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and about 65M of disk space. To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (4M of RAM will actually allow you to compile, however it won't be speedy. X really isn't usable on a 4M system) Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install: partition: advise, with X, needed, with X root (/) 15M 15M 10M 10M user (/usr) 65M 100M 45M 80M swap ----- 2M for every M ram ----- local (/local) up to you As you may note the recommended size of /usr is 20M greater than needed. This is to leave room for a kernel source and compile tree as you will probably want to compile your own kernel. (GENERIC is large and bulky to accommodate all people). Supported devices include: A4000/A1200 IDE controller. SCSI host adapters: 33c93 based boards: A2091, A3000 and GVP series II. 53c80 based boards: 12 Gauge, IVS and Wordsync. 53c710 based boards: A4091, Magnum, Warp Engine and Zeus. Video controllers: ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various amigas. Retina Z2 and Retina Z3. Ethernet controllers: A2065 Ethernet Hydra Ethernet Tape drives: Most SCSI tape drives, including Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150. CD-ROM drives: Most SCSI CD-ROM drives Amiga floppy drives. Amiga parallel port. Amiga serial port. Amiga mouse. If its not on this list, there is no support for it in this release. Getting the NetBSD System on to Useful Media: ------- --- ------ ------ -- -- ------ ----- Installation is supported from several media types, including: AmigaDOS HD partitions Tape NFS partitions FTP No matter what you do, however, you'll need to have one disk handy, on which you will put the install floppy image. All the images are available from the directory "amiga/floppies", under the root of the NetBSD tree at your favorite archive site. If you are using NetBSD/amiga to make the floppies, you should use the command dd(1) to write the raw floppy images (.fs files) to the disk. To write onto fd0 use: dd if=inst-10.fs of=/dev/rfd0a bs=11b If you are using AmigaDOS to make the floppies, you should use the rawwrite utility, provided in the directory "amiga/utilities" in the distribution. To write the image to the floppy in df0 use (from cli): rawwrite 0 inst-10.fs The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets for installation depend on which method of installation you choose. The various methods are explained below. To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition: To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition. All of the set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory instead of separate ones for each distribution set. This will also simplify the installation work later on. Note where you place the files you will need this later. 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 NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow get the NetBSD 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 where "" 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. "" are the names of the "set_name.nnn" 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 an NFS partition: NOTE: this method of installation is recommended only for those already familiar with using the BSD network-manipulation commands and interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation should help, but is not intended to be all-encompassing. Place the NetBSD 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 NetBSD 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 the new NetBSD machine, if the NFS server is not on a network which is directly attached to the NetBSD 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: NOTE: this method of installation is recommended only for those already familiar with using the BSD network-manipulation commands and interfaces. If you aren't, this documentation should help, but is not intended to be all-encompassing. The preparations for this method of installation are easy: all you have to do is make sure that there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve the NetBSD installation when it's time to do the install. You should know the numeric IP address of that site, 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. Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation: --------- ---- ------ --- ------ ------------ You will need an AmigaDOS hard drive prep tool to prepare you hard drives for use with NetBSD/amiga. HDToolBox is provided with the system software and on floppy installation disks since Release 2.0 of AmigaDOS so we will provide instructions for its use. Preparing you hard disk with HDToolBox: A full explanation of HDToolBox can be found with your AmigaDOS manuals and is beyond the scope of this document. Note you will be modifying your HD's if you mess something up here you could lose everything on all the drives that you configure. It is therefore advised that you: Write down your current configurations. Do this by examining each partition on the drive and the drives parameters (from Change drive type.) Back up the partitions you are keeping. What you need to do is partition your drives; creating at least root, swap and /usr partitions and possibly at least one more for /local if you have the space. This should be done as the HDToolBox manual describes. One thing to note is that if you are not using a Commodore controller you will need to specify the device your SCSI controller uses e.g. if you have a Warp Engine you would: from cli, hdtoolbox warpdrive.device from wb set the tooltype, SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=warpdrive.device The important things you need to do above and beyond normal partitioning includes (from Partition Drive section): Marking all NetBSD partitions as non-bootable. Changing the file system parameters of the partitions to NetBSD ones. This must be done from the partitioning section and `Advanced options' must be enabled. To Make the needed changes: - Click the `Adv. Options' button - Click the `Change filesystem' button - Choose `Custom File System' - Turn off `Automount' if on. - Set the dostype to one of these three choices: root partition : 0x4e425207 swap partition : 0x4e425301 other partitions: 0x4e425507 Here `other' refers to other partitions you will format for reading and writing under NetBSD (e.g. /usr) Make sure you hit the return key to enter this value as some versions of HDToolBox will forget your entry if you don't. - Turn custom boot code off - Set Reserved Blocks start and end to 0. - Click Ok. Mask and maxtransfer are not used with NetBSD. Until you compile your own kernel your swap partition must exist on the drive that also holds your root partition. Once this is done NetBSD/amiga will be able to recognize your disks and which partitions it should use. Installing the NetBSD System: ---------- --- ------ ------ Installing NetBSD is a relatively complex process, but, if you have this document in hand and are careful to read and remember the information which is presented to you by the install program, it shouldn't be too much trouble. Before you begin, you must have already prepared your hard disk as detailed in the section on preparing your system for install. The following is a walk-through of the steps necessary to get NetBSD installed on your hard disk. If you wish to stop the installation, you may hit Control-C at any prompt, but if you do, you'll have to begin again from scratch. First you need to get yourself into NetBSD. This can be done in a couple ways, both of which currently require AmigaDOS. You can insert the AmigaDOS kernel boot floppy and reboot or if you have downloaded a kernel to an AmigaDOS partition along with loadbsd you can run it from the CLI like so: loadbsd -b netbsd You should see the screen clear and some information about your system as the kernel configures the hardware. Then you will be prompted for a root device. At this time remove the AmigaDOS kernel boot floppy from the drive if present and insert the BSD install floppy. Now type `fd0' to boot off of your floppy drive 0. The system should continue to boot. For now ignore WARNING: messages about bad dates in clocks and swap space and about a missing /etc/spwd.db (it didn't fit, *shrug*). Eventually you will be asked to enter the pathname of the shell, just hit return. After a short while you should see a welcome message and a prompt, asking if you wish to proceed with the installation. If you wish to proceed, enter "y" and then return. If you have configured your hard drive[s] correctly it should find the drive and partition that you selected to use as your root. YOU ARE NOW AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN. If you confirm that you want to install NetBSD, your hard drive will be modified, and perhaps its contents scrambled at the whim of the install program. If you are sure you want to proceed, enter "yes" at the prompt. The install program will now make the root filesystem you specified. There should be only one error in this section of the installation. It will look like so: newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument newfs: /dev/rsd0a: can't rewrite disk label If there are any others, restart from the the beginning of the installation process. This error is ok as the Amiga does not write disklabels currently. You should expect this error whenever using newfs. Next the install program will ask you which drive and partition you wish to use as /usr. First it will list the available drives. Choose one. Next it will give you a list of the partitions on that disk along with their sizes, types, etc.. Choose the letter that corresponds to the partition you wish to use for /usr. If you are doing a full install this should be at the very least 45M-50M large. If everything is ok the install program will then format and mount your /usr. If not then it will ask again for a drive and partition. When this completes your root partition will be mounted on /mnt and your /usr partition on /mnt/usr. An fstab will have been created and initialized to correctly mount these two file systems. This fstab will be in /mnt/etc. What you do from this point on depends on which media you're using to install NetBSD. Follow the appropriate instructions, given below. To install from an AmigaDOS partition: You first need to mount the AmigaDOS partition using the mount_ados command. If e.g. your AmigaDOS partition is the first partition on sd0 you could type: mkdir /mnt/ados mount_ados /dev/sd0d /mnt/ados You can use `disklabel sd0' to find out what types of partitions are on the disk `sd0'. Next goto the directory in which you stored the distribution sets. If e.g. you stored them in the root directory of the partition: cd /mnt/ados When there, run "Set_tmp_dir" and choose the default temporary directory, by hitting return at the prompt. Run the "Extract" command, giving it as its sole argument the name of the distribution set you wish to extract. For example, to extract the base distribution, use the command: Extract base10 and to extract the games distribution: Extract game10 If the distribution sets are in different directories, you will need to cd to each directory in turn, runing "Set_tmp_dir" and the appropriate "Extract" command(s). Continue this process until you've finished installing all of the sets which you desire to have on your hard disk. Once you have extracted all sets and are at the "#" prompt again, proceed to the section "Configuring Your System," below. To install from tape: The first thing you should do is pick a temporary directory where the distribution files can be stored. To do this, use the command "Set_tmp_dir" and enter your choice. The default is /mnt/usr/distrib. After you have picked a temporary directory, you should issue the load command: Load_tape Next, you will be told to insert the media into the appropriate drive, and hit return. Continue to follow instructions until you are returned to the "#" prompt. Go to the directory which contains the first distribution set you wish to install. This is either the directory you specified above, or possibly a subdirectory of that directory. When there, run "Set_tmp_dir" again, and choose the default temporary directory, by hitting return at the prompt. Run the "Extract" command, giving it as its sole argument the name of the distribution set you wish to extract. For example, to extract the base distribution, use the command: Extract base10 and to extract the games distribution: Extract game10 After the extraction is complete, go to the location of the next set you want to extract, "Set_tmp_dir" again, and once again issue the appropriate extract command. Continue this process until you've finished installing all of the sets which you desire to have on your hard disk. After each set is finished, if you know that you are running low on space you can remove the distribution files for that set by saying: rm set_name.?? For example, if you wish to remove the distribution files for the game09 set, after the "Extract game09" command has completed, issue the command: rm game10.?? Once you have extracted all sets and are at the "#" prompt again, proceed to the section "Configuring Your System," below. To install via FTP or NFS: First, use Set_tmp_dir to pick a temporary directory for the installation files. /mnt/usr/distrib is suggested. Configure the appropriate ethernet interface i.e. le0 if you have a 2065 or ed0 if you have a AMIGNET from Hydra Systems. ifconfig [netmask ] where is the interface name (e.g. ed0, etc.), and is the numeric IP address of the interface. If the interface has a special netmask, supply the word "netmask" and that netmask at the end of the command line. For instance, without a special netmask: ifconfig ed0 129.133.10.10 or with a special netmask ifconfig ed0 128.32.240.167 netmask 0xffffff00 If the NFS server or FTP server is not on a directly- connected network, you should set up a route to it with the command: route add default where is your gateway's numeric IP address. If you are NFS-mounting the distribution sets, mount them on the temporary directory with the command: mount -t nfs : where is the server's numeric IP address, is the path to the distribution files on the server, and is the name of the local temporary directory. Once this is done, proceed as if you had loaded the files from tape, "cd"ing to the appropriate directories and running "Set_tmp_dir" and "Extract" as appropriate. If you are retrieving the distribution sets using ftp, cd into the temp directory, and execute the command: ftp where is once again the server's numeric IP address. Get the files with FTP, taking care to use binary mode to transfer all files. Once you have all of the files for the distribution sets you wish to install, you can proceed using the instructions above as if you had installed the files from a tape. Configuring Your System: ----------- ---- ------ Once you have finished extracting all of the distribution sets that you want on your hard drive and are back at the "#" prompt, you are ready to configure your system. The configuration utility expects that you have installed the base system. If you have not, you will not be able to run it successfully (nor will you have a functional system regardless of configuration). To configure the newly installed operating system, run the command "Configure". Configure will ask for the machine's hostname, domain name, and other network configuration information. Once you have supplied `Configure' all that it requests, your machine will be configured well enough that when you reboot it it will almost be a completely functional NetBSD system. Note you should ignore the errors from `chown' they will be corrected shortly. Once you are done with `Configure', halt the system with the "halt" command (wait for "halted" to be displayed) and reboot. Then again boot NetBSD this time with the command: loadbsd netbsd You need to do your final tweeks now. First mount your file systems like so: mount -av Next you need to re-make your devices to get the ownership correct: cd /dev MAKEDEV all Your system is now complete but not completely configured; you should adjust the /etc/sendmail.cf file as necessary to suit your site and/or disable sendmail and other network related programs. These things can be found in /etc/netstart. Use vi, if you installed the man pages you can type `man vi' or `man ed' for instructions on how to use these somewhat non-intuitive editors. As mentioned at the end of the `Configure' run, you should copy the NetBSD kernel onto the root partition as "/netbsd". To get the proper timezone settings, link /etc/localtime to the appropriate file in /usr/share/zoneinfo. The link provided is to /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific. If you do not have a special graphics card like the Retina, you should edit the /etc/ttys file to turn off getty on the Retina console. Do this by editing the entry for /dev/ttye1, changing the "on" to "off". Once you are done with the rest of configuration unmount your file systems and halt your system, then reboot: cd / umount -av halt Finally you can now boot your system and it will be completely functional: loadbsd -a netbsd When it boots off of the hard drive, you will have a complete NetBSD system! CONGRATULATIONS! (You really deserve them!!!) Upgrading a previously-installed NetBSD System: --------- - ---------- --------- ------ ------ There is no previous release of NetBSD/amiga to upgrade. Administrivia: ------------- Registration? What's that? If you've got something to say, do so! We'd like your input. There are various mailing lists available via the mailing list server at . To get help on using the mailing list server, send mail to that address with an empty body, and it will reply with instructions. There are various mailing lists set up to deal with comments and questions about this release. Please send comments to: netbsd-comments@NetBSD.ORG To report bugs, use the 'send-pr' command shipped with NetBSD, and fill in as much information about the problem as you can. Good bug reports include lots of details. Additionally, bug reports can be sent by mail to: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG Use of 'send-pr' is encouraged, however, because bugs reported with it are entered into the NetBSD bugs database, and thus can't slip through the cracks. There are also port-specific mailing lists, to discuss aspects of each port of NetBSD. Use majordomo to find their addresses. If you're interested in doing a serious amount of work on a specific port, you probably should contact the "owner" of that port (listed below). If you'd like to help with this effort, and have an idea as to how you could be useful, send mail and/or subscribe to: netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG As a favor, please avoid mailing huge documents or files to these mailing lists. Instead, put the material you would have sent up for FTP somewhere, then mail the appropriate list about it, or, if you'd rather not do that, mail the list saying you'll send the data to those who want it. Thanks go to: ------ -- -- Members and former members of UCB's Computer Systems Research Group, including (but not limited to): Keith Bostic Ralph Campbell Mike Karels Marshall Kirk McKusick for their ongoing work on BSD systems, support, and encouragement. Also, our thanks go to: Mike Hibler Rick Macklem Jan-Simon Pendry Chris Torek for answering lots of questions, fixing bugs, and doing the various work they've done. UC Berkeley's Experimental Computing Facility has provided a home for sun-lamp, people to look after it, and a sense of humor. Rob Robertson, too, has added his unique sense of humor to things, and for a long time provided the primary FTP site for NetBSD. Without CVS, this project would be impossible to manage, so our hats go off to Brian Berliner, Jeff Polk, and the various other people who've had a hand in making CVS a useful tool. The following people (in alphabetical order) have made donations or loans of hardware and/or money, to support NetBSD development, and deserve credit for it: Brian Carlstrom Demon Internet, UK Michael L. Hitch Herb Peyerl Mike Price Thor Lancelot Simon Bill Sommerfeld Steve Wadlow (If you're not on that list and should be, tell us! We probably were not able to get in touch with you, to verify that you wanted to be listed.) Dave Burgess has been maintaining the 386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD FAQ for quite some time, and deserves to be recognized for it. Finally, we thank all of the people who've put sweat and tears into developing NetBSD since its inception in January, 1993. (Obviously, there are a lot more people who deserve thanks here. If you're one of them, and would like to mentioned, tell us!) We are: -- --- (in alphabetical order) The NetBSD core team: Chris G. Demetriou Theo de Raadt Adam Glass Charles Hannum The port-masters (and their ports): Allen Briggs (mac68k) (and the rest of the 'Alice' group) Theo de Raadt (sparc) Charles Hannum (i386, hp300) Chris Hopps (amiga) Adam Glass (pmax) Paul Mackerras (da30) Anders Magnusson (vax) Phil Nelson (pc532) Gordon Ross (sun3) Supporting cast: Steve Allen John Brezak Dave Burgess J.T. Conklin Hubert Feyrer Brad Grantham Lawrence Kesteloot Paul Kranenburg Herb Peyerl Matthias Pfaller Chris Provenzano Wolfgang Solfrank Legal Mumbo-jumbo: ----- ----- ----- The following notices are required to satisfy the license terms of the software that we have mentioned in this document: This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. This product includes software developed by the Computer Systems Engineering Group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. This product includes software developed by Paul Kranenburg. This product includes software developed by Christian E. Hopps. This product includes software developed by Timo Rossi