Re: NetBSD 10.1 on Hetzner - anyone?

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 03:20:41PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 07:14:33AM +0000, RVP wrote:
> > https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/1262-howto-run-netbsd-on-hetzner-cloud
> 
> Thanks. That is very useful.
> 
> Just one basic question: I am going to perform this procedure on another
> Hetzner VPS. So speed of transferring image won't be a problem. However I
> will have less disk space than the image size I want to create. How to
> work around this? Can I use formats other than raw - such as qcow2? Can I
> create a smaller image and grow it on the VPS later? Or can I create
> partitions of leftover space later. Or something else?

Should this be xzcat?

    cat /path/to/disk/image.raw.xz |..

If so, I think it should be possible to use a format like qcow2 to create
an image of larger notional size in a smaller file and convert it into raw
on stdout - thus allowing me to use a VPS with modest disk space for this
exercise?

-- 
Mayuresh