NetBSD Installation (book chapter)
The 25-page book chapter at reed-netbsd-book-install-chapter-2011.pdf covers the installer steps for NetBSD 4 and 5. The topics in the chapter include:
- Getting NetBSD
- Starting installation
- sysinst
- Language and keyboard for installer
- Main installer menu
- Okay to install
- Hard disk to install on
- Distribution sets
- Disk geometry
- Master Boot Record
- Install boot code
- MBR Partition Editor
- Check boot code
- sysinst and disklabel partitions
- Simple disklabel editor
- Advanced disklabel editor
- Name your NetBSD disk
- Write to disk
- Choosing bootblocks
- Installing boot blocks
- Fetch and extract sets
- Media choices
- CD-ROM
- Networking setup
- Download details
- Problems
- Extracting sets
- Extraction complete
- Save network configuration
- Timezone
- Password cipher
- Root password
- Default shell for root
- Installation complete
- Utilities
- The shell
- Logging and scripting
- Halt and reboot
The 197-page book never got completed and published and now this chapter needs to be rewritten a lot for the upcoming NetBSD 6.0 release. Any feedback to reed would be appreciated.
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