Install NetBSD from USB Flash Device
This will attempt to describe how to do a NetBSD/i386 installation from a USB flash drive.
Preparation
- create a NetBSD (fdisk) partition large enough for the INSTALL kernel and the sets
- set that partition "active"
- install mbr(8) with fdisk
- disklabel this partition
- newfs that partition
- installboot the proper bootxx_* code, and copy boot(8) onto the new file system
- copy the INSTALL kernel onto the drive, name it /netbsd if you want it to automatically boot
- copy the sets onto the drive, remember where you put them
- umount, sync, and pull the drive out
Installation
- tell the BIOS to boot from USB
- running sysinst, tell it to pull the sets off an unmounted fs, and specify the proper path to them
- complete sysinst
- reboot