Netbsd installation sets

Yes, "c: Base directory" is left empty, because we had copied the distribution. An alternative setup method saves space on the stick at the expense of sysinst automation and is therefore more advanced. All fine tuning can be done when you're logged in. There is an error which I picked up on last year and has not been corrected yet.

When booting 6. It apparently sees the usb on scsibus1 at umass1 and if I unplug it and plug it in it shows up as sd5. RSS Atom. Comment by Michael — in the wee hours of Sunday night, June 4th, Remove comment.

Comment by spz — late Tuesday morning, December 18th, Generic Kernel only supports up to sd4 - usb shows up as sd5. I'll try to unplug the devices on scsibus0 - looks like sd plugins. In this setup the disk had been completely wiped before, so now we can choose what type of partitioning scheme we want to use.

GPT is the more universal method, and also allows using disks of arbitrary size. After the partitioning scheme selection which will be skipped if the installer already finds valid partitions on your disk you are presented size suggestions for the to-be-created NetBSD partitions. Details depend on the size of the target disk and available memory swap is also used to store kernel crash dumps, so with more installed RAM the installer will suggest bigger swap partitions.

Just continue the regular installation process from here - it should automatically create a UEFI bootable hard disk. The tutorial below shows only for NetBSD 8.

The install image will offer a menu item to exit the install system. Using that will drop you to a shell prompt. At the shell prompt let us find out what disks we have and which one we want to install to.

We can find out what disk devices have been recognized by the kernel via the sysctl program:. This output is from a typical desktop machine. Hard disks usually show up as wd as well. USB sticks typically show up as sd devices. The dk devices are logical wedges partitions on the hardware devices, and this early after boot we usually see them in order, that is: dk0 and dk1 are partitions on the installer USB stick sd0.

We can verify that by asking for a list of wedges on sd Here the internal SSD is showing up as wd0, and has Windows pre-installed dk The install image USB stick again shows up as sd0 with two wedges dk4 and dk5. NOTE : if you keep following this tutorial on a machine like the above, the windows installation will be destroyed and all data lost!

Finally, the menu in Figure 3. For all the base information about users and root accounts, as well as the wheel group, refer to Section 5. After passing the dialog that confirms the installation, sysinst will return to the main menu. Remove any installation media CD, floppy, etc. Chapter 3. Example installation Prev Part II. System installation and related issues Next.

Example installation. Table of Contents 3. Introduction 3. The installation process 3. Keyboard layout 3. Starting the installation 3. MBR partitions 3. Disklabel partitions 3. Setting the disk name 3. Last chance! The disk preparation process 3.

Installation type 3. Choosing the installation medium 3. Installing from an unmounted file system 3. Installing via FTP and Network configuration 3.

Installing via NFS 3. Extracting sets 3. System configuration 3. Finishing the installation. Note The following install screens are just examples.

The installation process. Keyboard layout. Starting the installation. Selecting the language. Selecting a keyboard type. The sysinst main menu. Confirming to install NetBSD. Choosing a hard disk. Disk geometry. MBR partitions. Choosing the partitioning scheme. Partition options.

Installing the boot selector. Disklabel partitions. Edit partitions? Setting partition sizes. The disklabel editor. Disklabel partition editing. Setting the disk name. Naming the NetBSD disk. Last chance to abort. The disk preparation process. Selecting bootblocks. Installation type. Full or custom installation. Selecting distribution sets. Choosing the installation medium. Installation media. Type the command: dmesg This will show the kernel startup messages, including information about not detected or not configured devices.

Installing from an unmounted file system. Mounting a file system. Mounting a partition. Installing via FTP and Network configuration. Defining the FTP settings. Which network interface to configure. Note The exact names of your network interfaces depend on the hardware you use.

Note It is unlikely that you will need anything other than the default here. Using autoconfiguration. Confirm autoconfiguration. Your host name: The name by which other machines can usually address your computer. IPv4 gateway: Your router's or default gateway's IP address. Do not use a hostname here! Again, don't use a hostname.

Installing via NFS.