Re: summarize sysinst or installation differences between ports -- and emulators to try?

["Juan Romero Pardines" <xtraeme%gmail.com@localhost>]

2008/3/15, Jeremy C. Reed <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>:
>
> I'd like to try installing non-i386 and non-amd64 NetBSD. Can you please
> suggest some emulators that I can run on NetBSD/i386 or NetBSD/amd64 so I
> can try?
>
> I have installed NetBSD on i386 hundreds of times. And on amd64 maybe 10
> to 20 times. I don't have much familarity with installing NetBSD on other
> ports.
>
> Also is there a single short document or webpage that lists the
> significant differences between installing on NetBSD's many ports?
>
> (I know many of the port specific pages have FAQs and there are per-port
> documentation, but I was hoping to find one location.)
>
> If not, can you all share with me some of the significant port specific
> install differences? For example: Like do some ports not use sysinst? And
> do some sysinst not include the MBR editor? (RTSL^HJ ...)
>
> Why I am asking: I have captured around 45 screenshots of installation
> (for i386) as I am writing a chapter about installing NetBSD. I don't plan
> to document every detail in installing on non-i386 but hope to be able to
> summarize some of the differences, what someone would notice, or things to
> watch out for on non-i386.
>
> (And if you know of any pkgsrc/emulators to try or if you can provide any
> installation screenshots on non-i386, please let me know.)
>
> Thank you
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
>

Try with emulators/gxemul and look at
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/emulators.html.

-- 
Juan Romero Pardines
xtraeme at gmail|netbsd dot org
The NetBSD Project