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After your network is setup, the install script will give you a chance to make any changes to your network setup. Then the filesystems you created will be mounted and a root password set. This will get your local disks ready for the MicroBSD packages to be installed upon them. After your local disks are ready, you will be asked if you plan to run X on this system. If you answer 'Y', /etc/sysctl.conf will be modified to include the line machdep.allowaperture=1.
Next, you will get a chance to choose your installation media. The options are listed below.
You will now be given the opportunity to escape to the command shell to do any additional network configuration you may need. This may include adding additional routes, if needed. In addition, you might take this opportunity to redo the default route in the event that it failed above. Escape to shell? [n] >Enter< /dev/wd0a on /mnt type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local, ctime=Tue Oct 16 17:53:18 2002) /dev/wd0h on /mnt/home type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local, ctime=Tue Oct 16 17:53:18 2002) /dev/wd0d on /mnt/tmp type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local, ctime=Tue Oct 16 17:53:18 2002) /dev/wd0g on /mnt/usr type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local, ctime=Tue Oct 16 17:53:18 2002) /dev/wd0e on /mnt/var type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local, ctime=Tue Oct 16 17:53:18 2002) Please enter the initial password that the root account will have. Password (will not echo): >enter root PW< Password (again): >re-enter root PW< Do you expect to run the X Window System? [y] >Enter< You must now specify where the install sets you want to use are. They must either be on a local device (disk, tape, or CD-ROM), an accessible NFS filesystem or an accessible ftp or http network server. You will have the chance to repeat this step or to extract sets from several places, so you do not have to try to load all the sets in one try and can recover from some errors. Install from (f)tp, (h)ttp, (t)ape, (C)D-ROM or local (d)isk? c
In this example we are installing via CD-ROM. This will bring up a list of devices on your computer identified as a CD-ROM. Most people will only have one; if you don't, you need to make sure you pick the device which you will use to install MicroBSD from. After choosing the correct device, you will be prompted for which filesystem the installation files will reside on. If you are using the MicroBSD CD-ROM you will choose 'c' here, for 'c' represents the whole disk. Here is an example:
The following CD-ROM devices are installed on your system. Please make sure the CD is in the CD-ROM drive and select the device containing the CD with the installation sets: cd0 Which CD-ROM contains the installation media? [cd0] >Enter< Enter the directory relative to the mount point that contains the file: [0.6/i386] >Enter<
Now it's time to choose which packages you will be installing. You can get a description of these files in the next section. The files that the install program finds will be shown to you on the screen. Your job is just to specify which files you want. By default all the non-X packages are selected, however, some people may wish to limit this to the bare minimum required to run MicroBSD, which would be base06.tar.gz, etc06.tar.gz and bsd. Others will wish to install all packages.
Example of install:
You will now be asked which sets to install. Some of these sets are required for your install and some are optional. You will want at least the base and bsd sets. Consult the installation notes if you are not sure which sets are required! The following sets are available. Enter a filename, 'all' to select all the sets, or 'done'. You may de-select a set by prepending a '-' to its name. [X] base06.tgz [X] etc06.tgz [X] misc06.tgz [X] comp06.tgz [X] man06.tgz [X] bsd File name? [done] -man06.tgz The following sets are available. Enter a filename, 'all' to select all the sets, or 'done'. You may de-select a set by prepending a '-' to its name. [X] base06.tgz [X] etc06.tgz [X] misc06.tgz [X] comp06.tgz [ ] man06.tgz [X] bsd File name? [man05.tgz] done Ready to install sets? [y] >Enter<
Once you have successfully picked which packages you want, you will be prompted to make sure you want to extract these packages and they will then be installed. A progress bar will be shown that will keep you informed on how much time it will take. The times range greatly depending on what system it is you are installing MicroBSD on, the packages installed, and the speed of the source media. This part may from a few minutes to several hours.
Ready to install sets? [y] >Enter< Getting base06.tgz ... 100% |**************************************************| 23299 KB 00:25 Getting etc06.tgz ... 100% |**************************************************| 1164 KB 00:02 Getting misc06.tgz ... 100% |**************************************************| 1664 KB 00:01 Getting comp06.tgz ... 100% |**************************************************| 16061 KB 00:18 Getting bsd ... 100% |**************************************************| 4436 KB 00:02 Extract more sets? [n] >don't answer yet!<
If your system has a small amount of RAM (less than 20M on i386), do not hit return at that prompt quite yet!
Special steps for machines with little RAM
As MicroBSD has grown, the minimum RAM requirement has grown, and is likely to continue to increase. The next step in the install process will require more than 16M RAM, and will fail on older machines with less than 20M RAM (again, these are i386 numbers -- some other platforms will require far less RAM, though this trick can be used with them as well, if they are running near the lower-limits.
During the install process, there is normally no swap, the real RAM is all you have. The 'MAKEDEV' step that follows will require more than the rest of the install required. As a system with small amounts of RAM can still be very usable for many applications, working around this limitation is a quite useful trick.
The solution is to activate swap now. The swap partition has been created, the files are installed to the hard disk, the only trick here is to manually invoke it. So, do not just hit 'ENTER' at the above prompt, but rather, hit '!', which will bring up a shell, and launch swapon from the mounted hard drive:
Extract more sets? [n] ! Type 'exit' to return to install. # /mnt/sbin/swapon /dev/wd0b # exit n
Note the 'n' as the last step. Remember, we called up the shell from the "Extract more sets?" question, that last 'n' is answering that question.
You can now resume the normal installation.
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