On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:44:32AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > One interesting turn running sysinst: I tried "unmounted > fs" to access the flash drive with the install img only to learn > that it was already mounted and therefore "busy." I got what I > needed selecting "Local fs" at /mnt.
Indeed, that image runs with the root file system on the USB device. It is also a full populated NetBSD base system, you can exit from sysinst (or use Utils/Run /bin/sh) to get a shell and do whatever you like manually. Martin