Re: install/46753: INSTALL documents should mention how to use USB images

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/46753; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: install-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
Subject: Re: install/46753: INSTALL documents should mention how to use USB
         images
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 02:36:16 +0900

 > >Synopsis:       INSTALL documents should mention how to use USB images
  :
 > >Fix:
 > Include instructions regarding how to write the {ARCH}inst.img.gz files
 > to a USB flash memory or external hard disk drive with a USB interface.
 
 Here is rough description I sent to releng:
 
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 - images are "raw" format
 - gunzipped sizes are 550MB (amd64) and 512MB (i386) so
   at least 1GB USB memories are required
 - images can be written to USB media using gzcat(1) and dd(1) etc
   # gzcat NetBSD-6.0_BETA2-i386-install.img.gz | dd of=/dev/rsd0d bs=64k
 - Rawrite32.exe can be used to write images on Windows
   http://www.NetBSD.org/~martin/rawrite32/download.html
 - booted USB memory must be recognized as "sd0" by kernel
   otherwise sysinst won't start (due to static fstab(5))
 - during sysint installation using the image,
   http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-exinst.html#exinst-choose-media
   you have to choose
   "g: Local directory"
   at the "choosing the installation media" menu and then
   just hit return (choose defaults) in directory location menu
 
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 All other images than amd64/i386 are for possible emulators, BTW.
 (any USB bootable architecture we support?)
 
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 Izumi Tsutsui