On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 09:24:31AM -0000, David Lord wrote: > > My attempts at an install system from a usb stick > eventually worked well and was useful on my systems > without cdrom drive. Unfortunately I managed to > overwrite it. There were two downsides to my usb > stick, although on a 16 G stick I only had about > 500 MB of space with install system taking up most > of that, secondly it was painfully slow. > > I've just now reinstalled the stick with 5 GB used > for the filesystem: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail > root_device 4.9G 443M 4.2G
Can it be extended to use the whole 16G? That could be handy as a transportable Live system. > It needs some cleaning up but it boots ok. > > I also have NetBSD-6.1_STABLE-i386-live-sd0root.img.gz > built from sysbuild, that can be transferred using 'dd'. And this can be dd'd to a USB stick as a bootable live system? Is it possible to extend the image to use all the space on the USB stick? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
