hello. How hard would it be to add ssh/scp to the install image that gets brafted into the netbsd-INSTALL kernel? Is it not there because we don't have room on the install image? Not having ssh capabilities from the install miniroot environment is becoming a real impediment to doing new installs with images copied from other working machines. One of my standard techniques for building a new system is to build a standard machine and keep it as a prototype. Then, dump/restore its image to a new installation and tweak as necessary for that specific application. this gives me all the packages and kernel options I need for our production environment without having to reacreate them every time I build a new machine. By booting the NetBSD-INSTALL kernel, I can escape to a shell, partition the disks on a new machine, mount them and write these saved images directly to the disk, thereby getting a new working machine in one step without having to install each package via script or manually. Traditionally, I've been copying these images around via ftp, but as I begin using more cloud based services, it seems like a real security risk to not be able to copy such images in a secure manner.
Thoughts?
