Re: NetBSD-10_BETA gpt sysinst experience

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 11:16:13PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:

> ** The EFI should probably not be "a"
> ** Likewise having "/" as "b"

As Robert explained, that letters are menu items, not partition letters.

> ** "c" and "d" should probably be reserved and not showing up as <swap> and /tmp
> ** Filesystem details column is truncated with around 20 spare chars
> on right (minor)

Need more details for that, like your $TERM and the window (or framebuffer)
size and the full content you expected (and maybe a picture of the screen).

> 2) Selecting install > wd0 > Preconfigured wedges
> 
> Gives a fine display of the existing wedges (no way to proceed)

This menu item is meant for semi-manual setup. Currently sysinst does not
really support multiboot EFI setups (and this is non-trivial).

So the idea is: you setup whatever you need for boot selection (copy the
netbsd bootloader to the ESP and add proper variables/configuration
in the EFI shell or whatever) and also (manually) create the NetBSD / ffs
partition and (optionally) the NetBSD swap partition (both with proper
partition types).

Then you can use sysinst to install into the pre-created dkN for / (and it
will magically find the swap partition and offer that).

This is also the way to go if you have a more complex cgd/raid/lvm setup
(e.g. / on cgd). You prepare everything manually and the use this menu
item to populate / and do the non-partitioning part of the setup.


> 2) Selecting install > wd0 > Extended

This is a still quite shaky area and not fully tested. I spend some time
fixing more ways through it every now and then, but it is not high priority
(and there are a million ways through it).

Martin