INSTALLATION NOTES for NetBSD/sun3x 1.3 Be sure to read _ALL_ of this document before you try to install NetBSD/sun3x. What is NetBSD? ---- -- ------ The NetBSD Operating System is a fully functional UN*X-like system derived from the Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2), 4.4BSD-Lite, and 4.4BSD-Lite2 sources. NetBSD runs on many architectures and is being ported to more. NetBSD is a creation of the members of the Internet community. Without the unique cooperation and coordination the net makes possible, it's likely that this release wouldn't have come about. The NetBSD 1.3 release is a landmark. Building upon the successful NetBSD 1.2 release, we have provided numerous and significant functional enhancements, including support for many new devices, integration of many bug fixes, new and updated kernel subsystems, and many userland enhancements. The results of these improvements is a stable operating system fit for production use that rivals most commercially available systems. It is impossible to summarize the 18 months of development that went into the NetBSD 1.3 release. Some of the significant changes include: Support for machine independent device drivers has been radically improved with the addition of the "bus.h" interface, providing a high quality abstraction for machine and architecture independent device access. The bus_dma interface has also been integrated, providing a machine-independent abstraction for DMA mapping. This permits many good things, including (among many) clean multi-platform bounce buffer support. Framework support for ISA "Plug and Play" has been added, as well as support for numerous "Plug and Play" devices. APM support has been added to NetBSD/i386. An initial cut of multi-platform PCMCIA support has been added. Support for ATAPI devices (initially just ATAPI CD-ROM drives) has been added. Support for Sun 3/80s (sun3x architecture) has been added. Support for R4000 DECstations has been added. Integration/merger of 4.4BSD Lite-2 sources into userland programs has nearly been completed. Most of userland now compiles with high levels of gcc warnings turned on, which has lead to the discovery and elimination of many bugs. The i386 boot blocks have been completely replaced with a new, libsa based two stage boot system. This has permitted integration of compressed boot support (see below). Many ports now support booting of compressed kernels, and feature new "Single Floppy" install systems that boot compressed install kernels and ramdisks. We intend to do substantial work on improving ease of installation in the future. "ypserv" has been added, thus completing our support for the "yp" network information system suite. Support for the Linux "ext2fs" filesystem and for FAT32 "msdosfs" filesystems has been added. TCP now has a SYN "compressed state engine" which provides increased robustness under high levels of received SYNs (as in the case of "SYN flood" attacks.) (Much of this code was derived from sources provided by BSDI.) An initial implementation of Path MTU discovery has been integrated (though it is not turned on by default). An initial kernel based random number generator pseudodevice has been added. Several major fixes have been integrated for the VM subsystem, including the fix of a notorious VM leak, improved synchronization between mmap()ed and open()ed files, and massively improved performance in low real memory conditions. A new swap subsystem has radically improved configuration and management of swap devices and adds swapping to files. Userland ntp support, including xntpd, has been integrated. The audio subsystems have been substantially debugged and improved, and now offer substantial emulation of the OSS audio interface, thus providing the ability to cleanly run emulated Linux and FreeBSD versions of sound intensive programs. A "packages" system has been adapted from FreeBSD and will provide binary package installations for third party applications. The XFree86 X source tree has been made a supported part of the NetBSD distribution, and X servers (if built for this port), libraries and utilities are now shipped with our releases. The ftp(1) program has been made astoundingly overfunctional. It supports command line editing, tab completion, status bars, automatic download of URLs specified on the command line, firewall support and many other features. All ports now use "new" config. Old config has been laid to rest. The ARP subsystem and API has been rewritten to make it less ethernet-centric. A new if_media subsystem has been added which allows network interfaces to be configured using media type names rather than device-specific mode bits. Many kernel interface manual pages have been added to manual section 9. Several ports support much more hardware. Many updates to bring NetBSD closer to standards compliance. Most third party packages have been updated to the latest stable release. As has been noted, there have also been innumerable bug fixes. Kernel interfaces have continued to be refined, and more subsystems and device drivers are shared among the different ports. You can look for this trend to continue. NetBSD 1.3 also includes some refinement to the NetBSD binary emulation system (which includes FreeBSD, HP-UX, iBCS2, Linux, OSF/1, SunOS, SVR4, Solaris and Ultrix compatibility), bringing NetBSD closer to the goal of making the emulation as accurate as possible. In the near future, we hope to integrate a fully rewritten Virtual Memory subsystem, kernel threads, and SMP support. NetBSD 1.3 is the first official release of NetBSD for the Sun3x family of machines. The Future of NetBSD: --- ------ -- ------ The NetBSD Foundation has been incorporated as a non-profit organization. Its purpose is to encourage, foster and promote the free exchange of computer software, namely the NetBSD Operating System. The foundation will allow for many things to be handled more smoothly than could be done with our previous informal organization. In particular, it provides the framework to deal with other parties that wish to become involved in the NetBSD Project. The NetBSD Foundation will help improve the quality of NetBSD by: * providing better organization to keep track of development efforts, including co-ordination with groups working in related fields. * providing a framework to receive donations of goods and services and to own the resources necessary to run the NetBSD Project. * providing a better position from which to undertake promotional activities. * periodically organizing workshops for developers and other interested people to discuss ongoing work. 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 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. 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: ------- -- ------ NetBSD Mirror Site List The following sites mirror NetBSD as of Sep 22, 1997 If you wish to become a distribution site for NetBSD, contact mirrors@netbsd.org. FTP mirrors ----------- Australia * ftp://ftp.au.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD Brazil * ftp://ftp.ravel.ufrj.br/pub/NetBSD Germany * ftp://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD * ftp://ftp.uni-regensburg.de/pub/comp/os/NetBSD Japan * ftp://netbsd.tohoku.ac.jp/NetBSD Netherlands * ftp://ftp.nl.netbsd.org/pub/comp/NetBSD Norway * ftp://ftp.ntnu.no/pub/NetBSD * ftp://skarven.itea.ntnu.no/pub/NetBSD Sweden * ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/OS/NetBSD * ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/NetBSD UK * ftp://ftp.DOMINO.ORG/pub/NetBSD USA * ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD * ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/NetBSD * ftp://ftp.cslab.vt.edu/pub/NetBSD * ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/NetBSD * ftp://ftp.iastate.edu/pub/netbsd * ftp://ftp.op.net/pub/NetBSD SUP mirrors ----------- Australia * ftp.au.netbsd.org Instructions: ftp://sup.au.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/README.sup Germany * ftp.de.netbsd.org Instructions: ftp://sup.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/supfile.example Norway * skarven.itea.ntnu.no Instructions: Use this line as your sup file to get /usr/README.supinfo- skarven:current release=supinfo host=skarven.itea.ntnu.no use-rel-suffix backup delete old base=/usr prefix=/usr hostbase=/supmirror UK * ftp.domino.org Instructions: See ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/README.sup USA * sup.netbsd.org Instructions: See ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/sup/README.sup * ftp.cs.umn.edu Instructions: hostbase=/ftp/ftp/packages/NetBSD, collections are the same as on sup.NetBSD.ORG AFS mirrors ----------- USA * ftp.iastate.edu AFS path: /afs/iastate.edu/public/ftp/pub/netbsd NetBSD 1.3 Release Contents: ------ --- ------- -------- The NetBSD 1.3 release is organized in the following way: .../NetBSD-1.3/ 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 1.3 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 for which NetBSD 1.3 has a binary distribution. There are also 'README.export-control' files sprinkled liberally throughout the distribution tree, which point out that there are some portions of the distribution (i.e. the `domestic' portion) that may be subject to export regulations of the United States. It is your responsibility to determine whether or not it is legal for you to export these portions and to act accordingly. 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. The source distribution sets are as follows: secrsrc.tgz: This set contains the "domestic" sources. These sources may be subject to United States export regulations. [ 412K gzipped, 1.8M uncompressed ] gnusrc.tgz: This set contains the "gnu" sources, including the source for the compiler, assembler, groff, and the other GNU utilities in the binary distribution sets. [ 15.6M gzipped, 66.4M uncompressed ] syssrc.tgz: This set contains the sources to the NetBSD 1.3 kernel, config(8), and dbsym(8). [ 10.7M gzipped, 50.0M uncompressed ] sharesrc.tgz: 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. [ 2.9M gzipped, 11.1M uncompressed ] src.tgz: This set contains all of the NetBSD 1.3 sources which are not mentioned above. [ 13.9M gzipped, 60.7M uncompressed ] It is worth noting that unless all of the source distribution sets are installed (except the domestic set), 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. Most of the above source sets are located in the source/sets subdirectory of the distribution tree. The secrsrc.tgz set is contained in the source/security subdirectory. This set, which is available only to users in the United States and Canada, contains the sources normally found in /usr/src/domestic -- primarily kerberos and other cryptographic security related software. (Remember, because of United States law, it may not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of the United States and Canada.) The source sets are distributed as compressed tar files. They may be unpacked into /usr/src with the command: cat set_name.tgz | gunzip | (cd /; tar xpf - ) The sets/Split/ and security/Split/ subdirectories contain split versions of the source sets for those users who need to load the source sets from floppy or otherwise need a split distribution. The split sets are are 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.) The split distributions may be reassembled and extracted with "cat" as follows: cat set_name.?? | gunzip | (cd /; tar xpf - ) 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) utility. 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. Checksums based on other algorithms may also be present -- see the release(7) man page for details. The sun3x-specific portion of the NetBSD 1.3 release is found in the "sun3x" subdirectory of the distribution. That subdirectory is laid out as follows: .../NetBSD-1.3/sun3x/ INSTALL Installation notes; this file. installation/ miniroot/ sun3x miniroot image netboot/ sun3x network boot support tapeimage/ sun3x boot tape support binary/ kernel/ sun3x kernels sets/ sun3x binary distribution sets security/ sun3x security distribution Detailed content descriptions by directory: .../sun3x/installation/ Files and scripts used during installation. This distribution supports installation of NetBSD/sun3x onto a sun3x with no previous operating system, with initial boot from network or tape. See "Getting the NetBSD System onto Useful Media" for instructions on either method. .../sun3x/installation/miniroot/ miniroot.gz A gzipped copy of the miniroot filesystem. This image is to be un-gzipped and copied into the swap area of a disk. .../sun3x/installation/netboot/ netboot A copy of the network boot program. This is useful if you are installing a diskless NetBSD/sun3x system. .../sun3x/installation/tapeboot/ MakeBootTape A script for creating the boot tape. MakeInstTape A script for creating the install tape. tapeboot A copy of the tape boot program, used as the first segment of a boot tape. .../sun3x/binary/kernel/ netbsd-gen.gz A gzipped GENERIC kernel (for upgrade) netbsd-rd.gz A gzipped copy of the "RAMDISK kernel" for installing the miniroot filesystem. .../sun3x/binary/sets/ The NetBSD/sun3x binary distribution sets contain the binaries which comprise the NetBSD 1.3 release for the sun3x. There are seven binary distribution sets and the "security" distribution set. The binary distribution sets can be found in the "sun3x/binary/sets" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.3 distribution tree, and are as follows: base The NetBSD/sun3x 1.3 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. [ 9M gzipped, 26M uncompressed ] comp The NetBSD/sun3x 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. [ 7M gzipped, 24M uncompressed ] etc 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.) [ 54K gzipped, 330K uncompressed ] games This set includes the games and their manual pages. [ 3M gzipped, 7M uncompressed ] man 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. [ 3M gzipped, 10M uncompressed ] misc 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, 8M uncompressed ] text This set includes NetBSD's text processing tools, including groff, all related programs, and their manual pages. [ 1M gzipped, 4M uncompressed ] .../sun3x/binary/security/ Contains executables which are built from the "src/domestic" portion if the NetBSD source tree. 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, it may not be legal to distribute this set to locations outside of the United States and Canada.) [ 128K gzipped, 275K uncompressed ] The sun3x binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files named with the extension ".tgz", e.g. "base.tgz". Each sun3x binary distribution set also has its own checksum files, 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 commands: cd / tar --unlink -zxvpf set.tar.gz Note that the "--unlink" flags is very important! If you upgrade or install this way, those programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced unless you run "tar" with the "--unlink" option. If you follow the normal installation or upgrade procedures, this will be taken care of for you. NetBSD System Requirements and Supported Devices: ------ ------ ------------ --- --------- ------- NetBSD/sun3x 1.3 runs on most Sun3x machines, including: 3/80 3/460/470/480 NetBSD/sun3x 1.3 does not run on the Sun3 class of machines. For NetBSD support for any other Sun3 machine, see the NetBSD/sun3 distribution. The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and about 80MB of disk space. To install the entire system requires much more disk space (approx. 100MB additional space is necessary for full sources). To run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. Good performance requires 8MB of RAM, or 16 MB when running the X Window System. Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install: partition: advise, with X, needed, with X root (/) 20M 20M 15M 15M user (/usr) 95M 125M 75M 105M swap ----- 2M for every M ram ----- local (/usr/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). Note that the sun3x installation procedure uses a `miniroot' image which is placed into the swap area of the disk. The swap partition must be at least as large as the miniroot image (8MB). The following Sun3x hardware is supported: Serial ports (RS232): built-in ttya, ttyb Video adapters: bwtwo Network interfaces: On-board Lance Ethernet On-board or VME Intel Ethernet SCSI: (Most SCSI disks, tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.) On-board "esp" (SCSI-3) VME "si" (SCSI-3) board Floppy: On-board floppy drive controller and floppy drive. Input devices: Sun keyboard and mouse Miscellaneous: Battery-backed real-time clock. If it's 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: * Tape * NFS * CD-ROM * FTP Note that installing on a "bare" machine requires some bootable device; either a tape drive or Sun-compatible NFS server. The procedure for transferring the distribution sets onto installation media depends on the type of media. Instructions for each type of media are given below. In order to create installation media, you will need all the files in the directory .../NetBSD-1.3/sun3x/ * Creating boot/install tapes: Installing from tape is the simplest method of all. This method uses two tapes; one called the "boot" tape, and another called the "install" tape. The boot tape is created as follows: cd .../NetBSD-1.3/sun3x/installation/tapeimage sh MakeBootTape /dev/nrst0 The install tape is created as follows: cd .../NetBSD-1.3/sun3x/installation/tapeimage sh MakeInstallTape /dev/nrst0 If the tapes do not work as expected, you may need to explicitly set the EOF mark at the end of each tape segment. It may also be necessary to use the `conv=osync' argument to dd(1). Note that this argument is incompatible with the `bs=' argument. Consult the tape-related manual pages on the system where the tapes are created for more details. * Boot/Install from NFS server: If your machine has a disk and network connection, but no tape drive, it may be convenient for you to install NetBSD over the network. This involves temporarily booting your machine over NFS, just long enough so you can initialize its disk. This method requires that you have access to an NFS server on your network so you can configure it to support diskless boot for your machine. Configuring the NFS server is normally a task for a system administrator, and is not trivial. If you are using a NetBSD system as the boot-server, have a look at the diskless(8) manual page for guidelines on how to proceed with this. If the server runs another operating system, consult the documentation that came with it (i.e. add_client(8) on SunOS). Your Sun3x expects to be able to download a second stage bootstrap program via TFTP after having acquired its IP address through RARP when instructed to boot "over the net". It will look for a filename derived from the machine's IP address expressed in hexadecimal. For example, a sun3x which has been assigned IP address 130.115.144.11 will make an TFTP request for `8273900B'. Normally, this file is a symbolic link to the NetBSD/sun3x "netboot" program, which should be located in a place where the TFTP daemon can find it (remember, many TFTP daemons run in a chroot'ed environment). The netboot program may be found in the install directory of this distribution. The netboot program will query a bootparamd server to find the NFS server address and path name for its root, and then load a kernel from that location. The server should have a copy of the netbsd-rd kernel in the root area for your client (no other files are needed in the client root) and /etc/bootparams on the server should have an entry for your client and its root directory. The client will need access to the miniroot image, which can be provided using NFS or remote shell. If using NFS, miniroot.gz must be expanded on the server, because there is no gzip program in the RAMDISK image. The unzipped miniroot takes 8MB of space. If you will be installing NetBSD on several clients, it may be useful to know that you can use a single NFS root for all the clients as long as they only use the netbsd-rd kernel. There will be no conflict between clients because the RAM-disk kernel will not use the NFS root. No swap file is needed; the RAM-disk kernel does not use that either. * Install/Upgrade from CD-ROM: This method requires that you boot from another device (i.e. tape or network, as described above). You may need to make a boot tape on another machine using the files provided on the CD-ROM. Once you have booted netbsd-rd (the RAM-disk kernel) and loaded the miniroot, you can load any of the distribution sets directly from the CD-ROM. The "install" program in the miniroot automates the work required to mount the CD-ROM and extract the files. * Install/Upgrade via FTP: This method requires that you boot from another device (i.e. tape or network, as described above). You may need to make a boot tape on another machine using the files in .../install (which you get via FTP). Once you have booted netbsd-rd (the RAM-disk kernel) and loaded the miniroot, you can load any of the distribution sets over the net using FTP. The "install" program in the miniroot automates the work required to configure the network interface and transfer the files. The preparations for this installation/upgrade method are easy; all you make sure that there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve the NetBSD distribution when you're about to install or upgrade. You need to know the numeric IP address of that site, and, if it's not on a network directly connected to the machine on which you're installing or upgrading NetBSD, you need to know the numeric IP address of the router closest to the NetBSD machine. Finally, you need to know the numeric IP address of the NetBSD machine itself. Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation: --------- ---- ------ --- ------ ------------ Sun3x machines usually need little or no preparation before installing NetBSD, other than the usual, well advised precaution of BACKING UP ALL DATA on any attached storage devices. You will need to know the SCSI target ID of the drive on which you will install NetBSD. Note that SunOS/sun3x uses confusing names for the SCSI devcies: target 1 is sd2, target 2 is sd4, etc. It might be a good time to run the diagnostics on your Sun3x. The diagnostic switch forces all diagnostic information to be printed to the ttya serial port, so it is a good idea to first attach a terminal to it before proceeding. for 3/460/470/480 machines Set the "Diag/Norm" switch to the Diagnostic position and power on the machine. for 3/80 machines Power on the unit and enter the command 'q 70b 12' and reboot. When you wish to return to normal boot mode, use 'q 70b 6'. The Sun3x ROM monitor can be configured to use any number of different devices as the system console. NetBSD will use these settings as well, so it is important to insure that they are correct. The device used can be changed by editing the contents of the EEPROM variable located at address 0x1F. To do so, use the command "q 1f". You will be prompted for a new value, which you can pick from below, or you can keep the current one by entering a period or blank line. 00: default graphics display 10: tty a (9600-N-8-1) 11: tty b (1200-N-8-1) 20: Color option board on P4 Installing the NetBSD System: ---------- --- ------ ------ Installing NetBSD is a relatively complex process, but if you have this document in hand it should not be too difficult. There are several ways to install NetBSD onto your disk. If your machine has a tape drive the easiest way is "Installing from tape" (details below). If your machine is on a network with a suitable NFS server, then "Installing from NFS" is the next best method. Otherwise, if you have another Sun machine running SunOS you can initialize the disk on that machine and then move the disk. (Installing from SunOS is not recommended.) * Installing from tape: Create the NetBSD/sun3x 1.3 boot tape as described in the section entitled "Preparing a boot tape" and boot the tape. At the PROM monitor prompt, use one of the commands: >b st() >b st(0,8,0) The first example will use the tape on SCSI target 4, where the second will use SCSI target 5. The '>' is the monitor prompt. After the tape loads, you should see many lines of configuration messages, and then the following "welcome" screen: Welcome to the NetBSD/sun3x RAMDISK root! This environment is designed to do only three things: 1: Partititon your disk (use the command: edlabel /dev/rsd0c) 2: Copy a miniroot image into the swap partition (/dev/rsd0b) 3: Reboot (using the swap partition, i.e. /dev/sd?b). Copying the miniroot can be done several ways, allowing the source of the miniroot image to be on any of these: boot tape, NFS server, TFTP server, rsh server The easiest is loading from tape, which is done as follows: mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 2 dd bs=32k if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/rsd0b (For help with other methods, please see the install notes.) To reboot using the swap partition, first use "halt", then at the PROM monitor prompt use a command like: b sd(,,1) -s To view this message again, type: cat /.welcome [ End of "welcome" screen. ] Copy the miniroot as described in the welcome message, and reboot from that just installed miniroot. See the section entitled "Booting the miniroot" for details. * Installing from NFS: Before you can install from NFS, you must have already configured your NFS server to support your machine as a diskless client. Instructions for configuring the server are found in the section entitled "Getting the NetBSD System onto Useful Media" above. First, at the Sun PROM monitor prompt, enter a boot command using the network interface as the boot device. On desktop machines this is "le", and "ie" on the others. Examples: >b le() -s >b ie() -s After the boot program loads the RAMDISK kernel, you should see the welcome screen as shown in the "tape boot" section above. You must configure the network interface before you can use any network resources. For example the command: ssh> ifconfig le0 inet 192.233.20.198 up will bring up the network interface with that address. The next step is to copy the miniroot from your server. This can be done using either NFS or remote shell. (In the examples that follow, the server has IP address 192.233.20.195) You may then need to add a default route if the server is on a different subnet: ssh> route add default 192.233.20.255 1 You can look at the route table using: ssh> route show Now mount the NFS filesystem containing the miniroot image: ssh> mount -r 192.233.20.195:/server/path /mnt The procedure is simpler if you have space for an expanded (not compressed) copy of the miniroot image. In that case: ssh> dd if=/mnt/miniroot of=/dev/rsd0b bs=8k Otherwise, you will need to use "zcat" to expand the miniroot image while copying. This is tricky because the "ssh" program (small shell) does not handle sh(1) pipeline syntax. Instead, you first run the reader in the background with its input set to /dev/pipe and then run the other program in the foreground with its output to /dev/pipe. The result looks like this: ssh> run -bg dd if=/dev/pipe of=/dev/rsd0b obs=8k ssh> run -o /dev/pipe zcat /mnt/install/miniroot.gz To load the miniroot using rsh to the server, you would use a pair of commands similar to the above. Here is another example: ssh> run -b dd if=/dev/pipe of=/dev/rsd0b obs=8k ssh> run -o /dev/pipe rsh 192.233.20.195 zcat miniroot.gz * Booting the miniroot: If the miniroot was installed on partition 'b' of the disk with SCSI target ID=0 then the PROM boot command would be: >b sd(0,0,1) -s With SCSI target ID=2, the the PROM is: >b sd(0,10,1) -s The numbers in parentheses above are: controller (usually zero) unit number (SCSI ID * 8, in hexadecimal) partition number Miniroot install program: ------------------------ The miniroot's install program is very simple to use. It will guide you through the entire process, and is well automated. Additional improvements are planned for future releases. The miniroot's install program will: * Allow you to place disklabels on additional disks. The disk we are installing on should already have been partitioned using the RAMDISK kernel. * Create filesystems on target partitions. * Allow you to set up your system's network configuration. Remember to specify host names without the domain name appended to the end. For example use `foo' instead of `foo.bar.org'. If, during the process of configuring the network interfaces, you make a mistake, you will be able to re-configure that interface by simply selecting it for configuration again. * Mount target filesystems. You will be given the opportunity to manually edit the resulting /etc/fstab. * Extract binary sets from the media of your choice. * Copy configuration information gathered during the installation process to your root filesystem. * Make device nodes in your root filesystem. * Copy a new kernel onto your root partition. * Install a new boot block. * Check your filesystems for integrity. First-time installation on a system through a method other than the installation program is possible, but strongly discouraged. Upgrading a previously-installed NetBSD System: --------- - ---------- --------- ------ ------ NetBSD 1.3 is the first release in which NetBSD/sun3x is available. Therefore, there is no official upgrade path. However, there may be some who have installed a snapshot of the port while it was still in development. These notes are included for them. The miniroot image contains an upgrade program which was originally copied from the NetBSD/sun3 distribution. However, it cannot be used with NetBSD/sun3x because it expects a NetBSD/sun3 1.2 setup. However, while using the miniroot's upgrade program is the preferred method of upgrading your system, it is still possible to upgrade your system manually. To do this, follow the following procedure: * Place _at least_ the `base' binary set in a filesystem accessible to the target machine. A local filesystem is preferred, since the NFS subsystem in the NetBSD 1.3 kernel may be incompatible with your old binaries. * Back up your pre-existing kernel and copy the 1.3 kernel into your root partition. * Reboot with the 1.3 kernel into single-user mode. (Otherwise you can not install the boot block.) * Check all filesystems: /sbin/fsck -pf * Mount all local filesystems: /sbin/mount -a -t nonfs * If you keep /usr or /usr/share on an NFS server, you will want to mount those filesystems as well. To do this, you will need to enable the network: sh /etc/netstart * Run the update(8) daemon, to ensure that new programs are actually stored on disk. update * Make sure you are in the root filesystem and extract the `base' binary set: cd / tar --unlink -zxvpf /path/to/base.tar.gz NOTE: the `--unlink' option is _very_ important! * Install a new boot block: (assuming root is on /dev/rsd0a) cd /usr/mdec cp -p ./ufsboot /mnt/ufsboot sync ; sleep 1 ; sync ./installboot -v /ufsboot bootxx /dev/rsd0a * Sync the filesystems: sync * At this point you may extract any other binary sets you may have placed on local filesystems, or you may wish to extract additional sets at a later time. To extract these sets, use the following commands: cd / tar --unlink -zxvpf NOTE: you SHOULD NOT extract the `etc' set if upgrading. Instead, you should extract that set into another area and carefully merge the changes by hand. Compatibility Issues With Previous NetBSD Releases: ------------- ------ ---- -------- ------ -------- Users upgrading from previous versions of NetBSD may wish to bear the following problems and compatibility issues in mind when upgrading to NetBSD 1.3: * Swap configuration Description: All swap partitions are now configured by the swapctl(8) program. The kernel no longer configures a "default" swap partition. Because of this, all swap partitions (even the old "default") must be listed in /etc/fstab. Many users of previous releases relied on the kernel configuring a "default" swap partition and did not list any swap space in /etc/fstab at all -- such users will now have no swap space configured unless they list swap partitions in /etc/fstab! Common symptoms of of this problem include machine crashes during builds, and similar memory intensive activities. Fix: The most common position for a swap partition is the `b' partition of the drive the root file system is on. For diskless systems, check the new swapctl(8) manual for more detail on how this is done. Example fstab entries: /dev/sd0b none swap sw,priority=0 /dev/sd1b none swap sw,priority=5 * NFS daemons and other programs in /sbin moved Description: The NFS daemons (nfsd, nfsiod, mountd) have been moved from the /sbin to the /usr/sbin directory. When new binaries are loaded over old ones during upgrade, most programs get overlaid and replaced, but unless these binaries are explicitly removed they will not disappear. The installation subsystems on some NetBSD architectures will not properly remove these binaries. Due to changes in the NFS subsystem, the old NFS daemon binaries will not work correctly, and will cause serious problems. Unfortunately, the default startup script (/etc/rc) will run the old binaries in /sbin if they are present instead of the new ones in /usr/sbin. Some other programs (dumpfs, dumplfs and quotacheck) have also been moved from /sbin to /usr/sbin, and old versions may be left behind by accident. They, too, may cause difficulties. Fix: Remove the old daemon binaries (/sbin/nfsiod, /sbin/nfsd, /sbin/mountd, etc.) after your upgrade has finished. You may wish to do an "ls -lt /sbin | more" to help determine which binaries were not replaced/removed during your upgrade. * AMANDA, The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, from http://www.amanda.org Description: Due to a change in the output of dump(8) to ensure consistency in the messages, AMANDA's dump output parser breaks. Error messages such as the following may be an indication that this problem is present: FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY: hostname wd0e lev 1 FAILED [no backup size line] Versions affected: 2.3.0.4, and most likely earlier versions Workaround/Fix: One of: * Apply the patch found at: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/patches/amanda-pre-2.4.patch * Upgrade to AMANDA 2.4.0 or newer. The side effect of this is that the network protocol is incompatible with earlier versions. Using online NetBSD documentation ----- ------ ------ ------------- Documentation is available if you first install the manual distribution set. Traditionally, the "man pages" (documentation) are denoted by 'name(section)'. Some examples of this are intro(1), man(1), apropros(1), passwd(1), and passwd(5). The section numbers group the topics into several categories, but three are of primary interest: user commands are in section 1, file formats are in section 5, and administrative information is in section 8. The 'man' command is used to view the documentation on a topic, and is started by entering 'man [section] topic'. The brackets [] around the section should not be entered, but rather indicate that the section is optional. If you don't ask for a particular section, the topic with the least-numbered section name will be displayed. For instance, after logging in, enter man passwd to read the documentation for passwd(1). To view the documentation for passwd(5), enter man 5 passwd instead. If you are unsure of what man page you are looking for, enter apropos subject-word where "subject-word" is your topic of interest; a list of possibly related man pages will be displayed. Administrivia: ------------- 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 provided a home for sun-lamp in the past, 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. Best Internet Communications for hosting the NetBSD FTP and SUP server. Cygnus Support for hosting the NetBSD Mail server. 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. Dave Burgess has been maintaining the 386BSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD FAQ for quite some time, and deserves to be recognized for it. 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: Bay Area Internet Solutions Jason Brazile David Brownlee Simon Burge Dave Burgess Ralph Campbell Canada Connect Corporation Brian Carlstrom James Chacon Bill Coldwell Charles Conn Tom Coulter Charles D. Cranor Christopher G. Demetriou Demon Internet, UK Easynet, UK Scott Ellis Free Hardware Foundation Greg Gingerich Michael L. Hitch Innovation Development Enterprises of America Scott Kaplan Chris Legrow Neil J. McRae Perry E. Metzger MS Macro System GmbH, Germany Numerical Aerospace Simulation Facility, NASA Ames Research Center Herb Peyerl Mike Price Thor Lancelot Simon Bill Sommerfeld Paul Southworth Jason R. Thorpe 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.) 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 group: J.T. Conklin Charles Hannum Paul Kranenburg Jason Thorpe Christos Zoulas The port-masters (and their ports): Mark Brinicombe (arm32) Jeremy Cooper (sun3x) Chuck Cranor (mvme68k) Charles Hannum (i386) Chris Hopps (amiga) Paul Kranenburg (sparc) Anders Magnusson (vax) Phil Nelson (pc532) Masaru Oki (x68k) Scott Reynolds (mac68k) Gordon Ross (sun3, sun3x) Jonathan Stone (pmax) Jason Thorpe (hp300) Frank van der Linden (i386) Leo Weppelman (atari) The NetBSD 1.3 Release Engineering team: Ted Lemon Perry Metzger Jason Thorpe Supporting cast: Steve Allen Lennart Augustsson Christoph Badura John Birrell Manuel Bouyer John Brezak Allen Briggs Aaron Brown David Brownlee Simon Burge Dave Burgess Dave Carrel Bill Coldwell Alistair Crooks Rob Deker Chris G. Demetriou Matthias Drochner Bernd Ernesti Erik Fair Hubert Feyrer Brian R. Gaeke Justin Gibbs Adam Glass Michael Graff Brad Grantham Matthew Green Juergen Hannken-Illjes Michael L. Hitch Marc Horowitz Matthew Jacob Lonhyn T. Jasinskyj Lawrence Kesteloot Klaus Klein John Kohl Kevin Lahey Ted Lemon Mike Long Paul Mackerras SAITOH Masanobu Neil J. McRae Perry Metzger Luke Mewburn der Mouse Herb Peyerl Matthias Pfaller Chris Provenzano Waldi Ravens Darren Reed Kazuki Sakamoto Curt Sampson Wilfredo Sanchez Karl Schilke (rAT) Thor Lancelot Simon Noriyuki Soda Wolfgang Solfrank Bill Sommerfeld Ignatios Souvatzis Bill Studenmund Kevin Sullivan Matt Thomas Enami Tsugutomo Todd Vierling Paul Vixie Colin Wood Steve Woodford Dedication: ---------- The Release Engineering team would like to dedicate the NetBSD 1.3 release to the memory of the late Koji Imada, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in August, 1997 at the age of 28. A doctoral student in Mathematical Science at Nagoya University, he was a user of NetBSD and a contributor to the project since 1993. Well remembered by his friends, he was also known as a connoisseur of gins, teas, and the motorcycles he loved to ride. 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