.\" $NetBSD: prep,v 1.13.18.1 2019/11/25 05:50:16 msaitoh Exp $ . A \*M machine usually needs little or no preparation before installing .Nx , other than the usual, well advised precaution of .Em backing up all data on any attached storage devices. .Pp . .Ss2 Available Boot Media . Currently the \*M Cyclone firmware allows for system booting using: .(bullet -compact Ethernet (netboot) using DHCP, BOOTP, TFTP, or NFS. .It Local hard disk or CD-ROM with the following file systems: .(bullet -compact Berkeley FFS .It Linux ext2 .It ISO9660 CD-ROM file system .It MS-DOS file system .bullet) .bullet) .Pp Booting from floppy disk is not currently supported. . .Ss2 Preparing the Bootable Media . This section describes how to get a .Nx*M install kernel onto a CD-R. .Pp Go to one of the .Nx mirror sites and download CD-R image from the .Pa pub/NetBSD/images directory. .Lk http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/#iso .Pp Get and install cdrecord. This is available in the packages collection under pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrtools. Systems not supported by the packages collection should get it from the official website: .br .Lk https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/sysutils/cdrtools/README.html .br .Lk http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html .Pp .(disp .No # Ic "cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=/dev/cd1d NetBSD-\*V-cats.iso" .disp) .Pp You will need to substitute the correct speed for your CD writer, as well as the correct device for your system (for i386 it would be .Pa /dev/cd1d ) . . .Ss2 Booting from CD-ROM . To boot from a CD-ROM simply issue the following command .Pp .(disp .No boot\*[Gt] Ic "boot cd0:/netbsd" .disp)