Re: Installing and Using NetBSD on 6 TB Drive

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

Oh, one more thing, the chances that sysinst on NetBSD-8 (or for that matter,
any NetBSD) will do this setup and get it right are vanishingly slim... 
(unfortunately)

Just get a shell, and do it all manually.   It helps a lot of course if you 
have another system available close by that you can use to read man
pages and doc while you're doing it.   It is also probably a good idea to
only initially set up what you really need, and then do everything else when
the system is running booted properly (apart from anything else, that means
less wasted time if it doesn't all just work the first attempt) so probably 
only initially install the base and etc sets.

The three things not to forget when installing manually, are to use the 'p' flag
on tar when unpacking the binary sets, so setuid bits are not lost, to go to
(what will be) /dev after the sets are unpacked, and MAKEDEV   For this, the
easiest way is

	chroot /mnt		# assumed to be the root of the system being created
	cd /dev
	sh MAKEDEV all

(or just "std" if you prefer) - but check and make sure thet device nodes
have been created for all the important stuff, console, sd0, ...   Any others
missing can easily be made later)

	^D		# exit from chroot

and third, that /etc on the new root is configured properly, you need fstab
to be correct, and rc.conf needs to have at least basic settings sensible

sysinst would normally take care of all of that...

kre