Running NetBSD from an external USB drive

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

        Had quite good experience doing this for the last few days
        after the fan on my Thinkpad T60p choked.

        Had to adjust fstab and cgd.conf to handle the wd0 -> sd0 change,
        and add a small rc.d script to automatically adjust xorg for the
        graphics chipset and wpa_supplicant for the wireless one if I
        wanted to move it between machines, but overall... not too bad.

        I would think this could be likened somewhat to using a live-cd,
        it has the "working on different machines" requirement if not
        the "no persistant storage and tmpfs everywhere"

        In particular autoconfiguring xorg and wpa_supplicant should be
        something the base system can do...

        (
         In case anyone is interested - more details at
         http://abs0.vox.com/library/post/netbsd-from-a-usb-drive.html
        )