Re: Installing NetBSD 9.1 on USB stick, not booting

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 11:13:06AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> BTW isn't it good for the installer to not assume anything about the
> target machine? It makes the installation more resilient to hardware
> changes.

The installer is supposed to run on the target machine and it tries to
avoid many questions by checking the machine instead of asking
the user.

Also the results may differ significantly and the "generic" solution
could be wastefull, so optimizing for the real machine makes sense
to me.

Martin