You can download the USB installer from ftp://[email protected]/pub/NetBSD/images/6.1.5/NetBSD-6.1.5-amd64-install.img.gz . Uncompress it and dd it onto a USB stick.
I don't quite get your setup; although I have a few systems installed and booting from RAID1 I tend now to consider the OS an easy bit to recover and leave the more complex configurations for the data disks. You can get a shell prompt while doing the installation; various bits and pieces have been changed through the years as to what is actually available and usable at this stage - this being one of the reasons I prefer simple setups. Chavdar Ivanov On Mon, 11 May 2015 at 23:47 William A. Mahaffey III <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Howdy, list :-). A (another ?) noob here. I am preparing to install > NetBSD 6.1.5 on a new server, AMD C32 based, 4256EE CPU, Supermicro > H8SCM mbd, 6 X 1 TB 2.5" HDD's, to be partitioned/RAIDed (software). > Firstly, is this the correct list to post what could be a blizzard of > noob-ish install questions ? If not, where, please ? Either way, I > downloaded both of the 6.1.5 boot ISO's. The online docs mention > installing from a CD or floppy, but no mention of a USB stick network > install, my preference. Is this in fact feasible ? If so, is it > documented anywhere ? Does the installer provide for possibly complex > partitioning during install via shell access or something similar ? For > reference, I am writing this on a FreeBSD 9.3Rp13 box, setup (last > summer) similarly to what I want to do w/ this NetBSD server. This box > has 4 X 1 TB 2.5" HDD's, partitioned into /boot, swap, /, /usr, & /home, > with /usr & /home RAID0-ed. The installer had a point where you could > pop into a shell & execute shell commands (or script) to complete the > partitioning w/o any fat-fingering of delicate, tedious, repetitive > commands. I am planning on /boot, swap, /, /usr, /var, & /home for the > server (5 slices per drive, with / RAID1-ed from 2 partitions, /usr > RAID1-ed from the other 4 of that size, /boot RAID1-ed from 6 slices, 1 > per drive, & /home & /var RAID5-ed from 6 slices, 1 per drive). Thanks > in advance for any & all input. > > > -- > > William A. Mahaffey III > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war > ever devised by man." > -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr. > >
