On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 09:32:56AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: > That sounds like a bug.
I just tested with the installer from -current and a fake setup trying to mimic parts of your environment. I used labels for the NetBSD partitions to make their identification easier later. Before: # gpt show -a vnd0 start size index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 32 Pri GPT table 34 4062 Unused 4096 262144 1 GPT part - EFI System Type: efi TypeID: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b GUID: 2df53c72-b805-4fef-8029-c13bd1a0c897 Size: 128 M Label: Attributes: None 266240 3072000 2 GPT part - Linux data Type: linux-data TypeID: 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 GUID: ede3d951-58f6-4d3b-9075-f83dd2ccb979 Size: 1500 M Label: Attributes: None 3338240 61444096 3 GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2 Type: ffs TypeID: 49f48d5a-b10e-11dc-b99b-0019d1879648 GUID: 3bbc2e24-6609-44ca-bfce-4db31b371bb8 Size: 30002 M Label: NetBSD root Attributes: None 64782336 91447296 4 GPT part - NetBSD swap Type: swap TypeID: 49f48d32-b10e-11dc-b99b-0019d1879648 GUID: 8cec37a5-e43f-4174-a3b4-33a4eb17d8e2 Size: 44652 M Label: NetBSD swap Attributes: None 156229632 1695 Unused 156231327 32 Sec GPT table 156231359 1 Sec GPT header Then I select: >a: Install NetBSD to hard disk and in the "Available disks" menu select >f: Preconfigured "wedges" dk(4) Now it offers me a selection of GPT partitions, most only liste by GUID, but among them: >j: NetBSD root (dk9@vnd0) and then I end up in a mostly regular install process: Ok, we are now ready to install NetBSD on your hard disk (dk9). Nothing has been written yet. This is your last chance to quit this process before anything gets changed. Shall we continue? +---------------+ x Yes or no? x x x x>a: No x x b: Yes x +---------------+ Since I did not newfs the NetBSD root partition upfront: The selected partition does not seem to have a valid file system. Do you want to newfs (format) it? >b: Yes and then it recognizes the swap partition "near by": A swap partition (named NetBSD swap) seems to exist on vnd0. Do you want to use that? >a: Yes and then I get asked for the sets I want to install, selected >a: Full installation and network download via http/https >b: HTTP I had preconfigured my network, it recognized this and skipped dhcp/network setup: Your network seems to work fine. Should we skip the configuration and just use the network as-is? >a: Yes and then I just acked the defaults for download from nycdn.NetBSD.org/ latest and everything installed just fine. After that I would have had to fixup booting "somehow", but since this was a fake test setup, I skipped that part ;-) Martin