System installation and related issues

Table of Contents

3. Installation

3.1. Documentation

3.2. The layout of a NetBSD installation

3.3. Installation

3.3.1. Keyboard

3.3.2. Geometries

3.3.3. Partitions

3.3.4. Hard disk space requirements

3.3.5. Retry

4. Example Installation

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Preparing the installation

4.3. Creating the installation floppy

4.4. Last preparatory steps

4.5. Beginning the installation

4.6. Partitions

4.7. Disklabel

4.8. Creating a disklabel

4.9. The disk preparation process

4.10. Choosing the installation media

4.11. Installing from CD-ROM and DVD

4.12. Installing via FTP

4.13. Extracting sets

4.14. System configuration

5. The first boot

5.1. If something went wrong

5.2. Login

5.3. Changing the keyboard layout

5.4. The man command

5.5. Changing the root password

5.6. Changing the shell

5.7. System time

5.8. Basic configuration in /etc/rc.conf

5.9. Enabling FFS soft-dependencies

5.10. Rebooting the system

6. The second boot

6.1. dmesg

6.2. Mounting the CD-ROM

6.3. Mounting the floppy

6.4. Accessing a DOS/Windows partition

6.5. Adding users

6.6. Shadow passwords

6.7. Stopping and rebooting the system

7. rc.d System

7.1. The rc.d Configuration

7.2. The rc.d Scripts

7.3. The Role of rcorder and rc Scripts

7.4. Additional Reading