Re: Prepping to install

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 05/11/15 18:21, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> You can download the USB installer from 
> ftp://ftp%ftp.netbsd.org@localhost/pub/NetBSD/images/6.1.5/NetBSD-6.1.5-amd64-install.img.gz 
> . Uncompress it and dd it onto a USB stick.
>
> I don't quite get your setup; although I have a few systems installed 
> and booting from RAID1 I tend now to consider the OS an easy bit to 
> recover and leave the more complex configurations for the data disks. 
> You can get a shell prompt while doing the installation; various bits 
> and pieces have been changed through the years as to what is actually 
> available and usable at this stage - this being one of the reasons I 
> prefer simple setups.
>
> Chavdar Ivanov

Thanks for that image, I somehow missed that directory when I downloaded 
my stuff.

I concur on the observation about OS recovery, I want the box to be 
failsafe w/ 1 HDD going out, a *highly* improbable event, IMHO, but that 
is what I am speccing (s0?). This box is replacing a S939 Opteron 165 
based box which in fact has had 2 HDD's go out in its 10+ year life, 
both 3.5" units salvaged from earlier boxen. Now the controller on the 
mbd seems to be gone, so it's replacement time. Another reply mentioned 
partitioning, w/o a boot partition. The FreeBSD folk are pretty adamant 
about that (a separate boot partition), is that in fact 
required/desirable under NetBSD ? It is easy enough to go either way 
during install, obviously more difficult after, so I would like to get 
that (& other) details right during install. Thanks & TIA ....

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