Installing NetBSD[int80h] There is very good, detailed documentation.First, read appropriate part of each relevant document. They are listed below.Then, decide which kind of installation (default menu-driven `sysinst`, or by hand "hacker style") better fits you. Default NetBSD installation is relatively easy and simple task; neverthless, you are strongly encouraged to do manual installation once, just to find out what happens behind the `sysinst` script. Be careful, don't hurry up and refer again and again to the documentation. You will succeed. As some steps are a bit risky, the best conditions were if you had a spare machine for that. NetBSD doesn't require any state-of-the-art, expensive hardware. Another advantage is that with two (or more) machines you have convenient environment to set up a local network and get deeper into networking issues securely. Also, you will probably like to tune-up your installation after you play a bit with it, so another machine connected to the internet or containing downloaded documentation would be useful. It took me well over a week (of lazy Summer time) to get my first NetBSD box up and running.If you have a disk around 1GB: don't follow blindly '-i 8192' parameter of `newfs` suggested in some documentation. My filesystem had enough space but run out of inodes when I attempted to install additions. '-i 1024' suits better in this case.Second "hacker style" installation took me only few hours, and after months since then I am still fine with choosen filesystem parameters.On a fast machine, experienced user can complete default NetBSD installation in less than half an hour.Information resources
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