On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 05:18:40AM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> On Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 4:14:39 AM UTC+2, abb wrote:
> >
> >
> > These instructions worked for me.
> >
> > Create standalone VM with default template, replaced vmlinuz with 
> > netbsd-INSTALL_XEN3_DOMU kernel. During setup chosen to install on xbd1 
> > hard disk. Could not figure out how to attach CD, 'qvm-start --cdrom=...' 
> > says VM does not support attaching disks. DHCP client in NetBSD didn't work 
> > during installation, so I had to manually configure the networking. The 
> > installation went fine, enabled SSHD during post-install configuration. 
> > Replaced the kernel with netbsd-XEN3_DOMU as the wiki says. It fails to 
> > boot automatically, need to explicitly specify xbd1a as root device when 
> > prompted. After bootstrap all works just fine, networking seems to work too 
> > (xennet0).
> >
> >
> I tried to follow the instructions above with NetBSD_7.0.2 but I am stuck 
> in  pointing to the base directory. Like described above I wasn't able to 
> attach a DVD/CD drive either, so I chose "local directory". I type in the 
> path to the binaries needed for the installation but I always get an error 
> "path does not exist". Can someone help me with this. I am sensing some 
> trivial mistake but can't figure it out yet. (I copied the contents of the 
> latest ISO into a personal folder in dom0, to which I am pointing: 
> home/user/Downloads/netbsd
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to read!
> 

These are pretty much the same instructions as at
www.qubes-os.org/doc/netbsd and worked for me. That was some time ago.

What error are you getting when trying to atatch the cdrom drive?

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