Has anybody recently migrated from *cough* Linux to NetBSD?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

Hi,

this is my disk layout as seen from Linux's perspective:

/dev/sda1       2048   1023999   1021952  499M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2    1024000   1226751    202752   99M EFI System
/dev/sda3    1226752   1259519     32768   16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4    1259520 103657471 102397952 48.8G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5  103657472 206057471 102400000 48.8G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda6  223012864 877277183 654264320  312G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda7  206057472 223012863  16955392  8.1G Linux swap
/dev/sda8  877277184 976773119  99495936 47.5G Linux filesystem

$ df -h|grep sda
/dev/sda5        48G  9.4G   36G  21% /
/dev/sda2        95M   32M   64M  33% /boot/efi
/dev/sda8        47G   32G   13G  73% /home
/dev/sda6       312G  258G   55G  83% /home/oc/storage

I could shrink one or more of the existing partitions and make room
for a 50GB NetBSD installation.

I could mount the vfat partition (/dev/sda6) and I could move some
data off the /home partition (/dev/sda8) little by little, until I
have replicated some of the configuration.

The immediate problems are:

1) Is it ok to put the / (root) of NetBSD at the end of the disk?

2) Should the bootloader be installed on the newly created BSD
partition? Or better install it onto a usb drive?

3) Will Grub be able to see the NetBSD partition or vice versa the
NetBSD bootloader chainload Grub?

4) If and when I am ready to rock and roll with NetBSD alone, should I
then resize (enlarge) the NetBSD partition or add more partitions
(slices)?

This is where it gets complicated, at least for me, and is holding me
back from installing NetBSD alongside Linux.

And no, I can't install a 2nd hard drive, This is an old Thinkpad.

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Ottavio Caruso