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Re: how do I automate an install of a NetBSD QEMU guest on a linux host?



On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 05:28:55PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 10:59:13AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > For instance, some sort of magic long virt-install command that feeds
> > necessary options directly to sysinst. Searching seems to either come
> > up with:
> > 
> > - do it by hand using the console
> > - use anita from pkgsrc
> > 
> > which, from my pov, don't help
> 
> This depends on how you boot the system. dd'ing the "usb image"
> (or efi image) to your hard disk and then booting from that could be enough.
> If booting works, it should resize the root partition to fill the disk
> and reboot again.

I play with too many different architectures. The behaviour I discribed
only works in -current and not with the stock x86 images we build, but 
as of now only with the evbarm SD/USB images.

Martin


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