In Message <20160213142158.GA20835@odin>, Mayuresh <[email protected]>wrote:
=>I wish to install NetBSD 7.0 i386 on a laptop on a USB stick. This is for =>testing purpose, not for day to day use. => =>I know I can boot from an installation image from a USB stick. However I =>want to carry out the installation on a USB stick. => =>The installation procedure that works with a hard disk did not work. I am =>not sure whether setting up geometry etc. needs to be done differently if =>the target drive is a USB stick. => =>I notice a memstick image for 5.1, but not for 7.0. =>http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.1/memstick/ Unfortunately, you'll probably need to build one yourself. Fortunately, as long as you have a build host, it should be pretty easy. With the source checked out, just: % ./build.sh -m i386 -U tools release live-image You'll end up with NetBSD-${version}-${arch}-live-{sd0,wd0}root.img.gz files in the releasedir/images directory. Uncompressed, the sd0 image will work on USB drives, and the wd0 image will work on SATA drives. Note that I haven't done this as a cross-build, but I believe it should work. Good luck... Gary Duzan
