On Sun, Jul 05, 2026 at 08:07:40PM -0500, Ted Spradley wrote:
> Most recently I had FreeBSD installed on this box. I left the EFI
> partition, deleted all the rest (zroot), and created a new swap
> partition and a 32GB partition for NetBSD (I want to leave space for
> other things).
There are two option:
1) tell sysinst to delete everything, then let it use GPT and create
new partitions - this is the easiest option-
2) if you already have the partitions, you should select that item from
sysinst and use the "already existing dk(4)" options, then point
it at the root partition (it will ask whethe it may use the swap
partition). In this case you have to do all preparations for
the ESP yourself, that is: mount it, e.g. on /boot, create
/boot/EFI/boot, cp /usr/mdec/*.efi /boot/EFI/boot.
Optionally then use efi(8) to create a boot option for this setup.
Currently sysinst does not properly support installing into existing ESPs
or along with other OSes (besides option (2) above).
Martin
