NAME
sysinst —
install or upgrade a NetBSD
system
SYNOPSIS
sysinst |
[-D] [-f
definition_file] [-r
release] |
DESCRIPTION
sysinst is a menu-based program that may be used to
install or upgrade a NetBSD system. It is usually
invoked automatically when the system is booted from appropriate installation
media.
sysinst is usually not present on a
NetBSD system that has been fully installed.
The following options are available:
-D- Switch on debugging.
-fdefinition_file- Use definition_file as a file for definitions other than the defaults. See the DEFINITION FILE section for its format.
-rrelease- Use release as the release name if it is different to the one compiled. Currently unused.
DEFINITION FILE
A definition file can be used with sysinst
to control several aspects of the installation or upgrade process. Options
can be stored within the file as
option = valuesysinst is used on):
| option name | default value | description |
| release | REL | Release name (also set by -r
release) |
| machine | MACH | Machine architecture |
| xfer dir | /usr/INSTALL | Transfer dir |
| ext dir | Extract dir (will usually be set later on) | |
| ftp host | ftp.NetBSD.org | FTP host for fetching files |
| ftp dir | pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-REL | FTP directory for fetching files |
| ftp prefix | /MACH/binary/sets | Directory to look for sets, used for all methods of fetching (i.e., not just FTP) |
| ftp user | ftp | FTP user for connecting |
| ftp pass | - | FTP password |
| ftp proxy | - | FTP proxy |
| nfs host | - | NFS host for fetching via NFS |
| nfs dir | /bsd/release | NFS directory for fetching files |
| cd dev | cd0a | Name of CD device for fetching files |
| fd dev | /dev/fd0a | Name of floppy device for fetching files |
| local dev | - | Other device to be mounted for fetching files |
| local fs | ffs | File system type for local device |
| local dir | release | Directory to look for in the mounted local file system |
| targetroot mount | /targetroot | Directory to mount target root dir to |
| dist postfix | .tgz | Suffix of set files to be extracted |
| diskname | mydisk | disktab(5) diskname to use for target disk |
SEE ALSO
release(7), afterboot(8), boot(8), diskless(8)
<machine>/INSTALL.* files on CD-ROM installation media .../NetBSD-<rel>/<machine>/INSTALL.* files in NetBSD releases or snapshots.
HISTORY
A sysinst command appeared in
NetBSD 1.3.