installing on a VPS

[Al Zick <azick%zickswebventures.com@localhost>]

Hi,

I really hope that there is someone who can help me. I want to  
install NetBSD on a rackspace VPS. I have NetBSD running on a VPS  
hosted by someone else, and they use a very different system for the  
install and I could mount a NetBSD ISO to do the install. This worked  
well. However, the install on rackspace is more of a problem. I would  
like to create an image of the running VPS with dd and ssh. Then I  
would like to put the rackspace VPS in recovery mode and once again  
use dd to install it on /dev/xvdb (which will be /dev/xvda after  
switching back from recovery mode).  They said on rackspace that I  
don't need a Xen kernel.

I would like to use the NetBSD boot loader, but the current install  
of Linux uses grub. What boot loader should I be using?

If dd is successful, then I should only have an 8GB root partition on  
rackspace, but rackspace is giving me 150GB of disk space. Is there a  
way to either expand the root partition, or should I create separate  
partitions for /var, /usr, and /home? I could then use "dump |  
restore" to move their contents from root to their own partitions.

Is there a better way to install on rackspace?  They talk about using  
a VHD image. Can I convert an image created with dd into a VHD image?

Also, there is an example of using iPXE. Is this something that is  
supported by NetBSD?

Kind Regards,
Al