Subject: Re: Installing sets
To: None <eos@felix.teclink.net, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Max Bell <mbell@europa.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/08/1996 10:05:00
>From: Noby Nobriga <eos@felix.teclink.net>
>My problem now is that I can't for the life of me figure out how to
>install more sets, like the comp11 set. I boot up and log in but the
>Set_tmp_dir and Load_fs and such don't work.
Unless things have changed since 1.0, the install sets are basically split-up
compressed tar archives. You should be able to confirm this by using the
following pipeline to list the files in the set:
cat setnameprefix.* | tar tvzf -
If this works, and my assumption that all install sets are designed to be
installed from the root directory, the command line:
umask 0; cat setnameprefix.* | (cd /; tar xpzf -); umask 22
should install the set.
>I've tried booting from my kernel boot disk and then using the install
>disk, but it doesn't mount my harddrive.
You could manually mount your hard-drive partitions after booting from the
kernel floppy, but that shouldn't be required.
>Umm...how do I mount other drives (e.g. fd0a from wd0e)?
That depends on what format the floppy is. Under 1.0, if you have MSDOS
filesystem support in your kernel, you can mount MS-DOS floppies via:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt
You can also make BSD format filesystems on floppy disks by using the
following command (beware that this will destroy any files present on the
floppy already):
newfs -m 0 /dev/rfd0a floppy3
(if you're using a 5.25 drive, replace "floppy3" with "floppy5"). Once the
format is done, you can mount it with:
mount /dev/fd0a /mnt
DO NOT forget to use "umount /mnt" in either case before removing the floppy
from the drive once it has been mounted.
Hopefully, others will be quick to point out anything I have missed, or
differences between 1.0 and 1.1 behavior in these areas.
Max