Re: How to install NetBSD on a USB stick

["Gary Duzan" <gary%duzan.org@localhost>]

In Message <20160214052012.GA934%internode.on.net@localhost>,
   Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>wrote:

=>On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 08:34:37AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
=>
=>> - Will the end result be different with your method vs creating a live
=>>   image (as Gary's reply suggested)?
=>> 
=>
=>IIRC Gary pointed you at an install image which has a cut down set of
=>tools on it, just sufficient to install the operating system.  If you
=>are looking for a fully functioning NetBSD system then you don't want an
=>install image.

   Not that it matters much at this point, since Mayuresh appears
to have managed a normal install to USB, but I had suggested building
a live-image, which appears to be pretty complete. From a -current
build in January:

# df -k /mnt
Filesystem    1K-blocks       Used      Avail %Cap Mounted on
/dev/dk0        1416942     894948     451148  66% /mnt
# ls -l /mnt/etc/mtree/
total 13400
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    59623 Jan  3 01:40 NetBSD.dist
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   812361 Jan  3 01:56 set.base
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2605531 Jan  3 01:56 set.comp
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    44485 Jan  3 01:56 set.etc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    44126 Jan  3 01:56 set.games
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   840260 Jan  3 01:56 set.man
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    98679 Jan  3 01:56 set.misc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   104099 Jan  3 01:56 set.modules
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   416694 Jan  3 01:56 set.tests
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    93113 Jan  3 01:57 set.text
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   213721 Jan  3 01:57 set.xbase
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   489084 Jan  3 01:57 set.xcomp
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    11608 Jan  3 01:57 set.xetc
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   780017 Jan  3 01:57 set.xfont
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    36002 Jan  3 01:57 set.xserver
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    19264 Jan  3 01:40 special

				Gary Duzan


p.s., Interestingly, it was a bit more difficult to mount the wd0
image than I expected. It has an MBR partition table, but the
disklabel on the vnd device I attached to it was garbage, with
partitions a-p all covering the whole disk. I had to use dkctl
addwedge with the offset and size from the fdisk to get a device
I could mount. This was on 7.0_STABLE from mid-December.