Installation from USB stick
Martin Husemann <[email protected]>
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[This topic came up elsewhere, but realy is worth discussing here] We seem to have all the tools and pieces to provide an easy to use install from USB stick but no instructions in the release notes - I wonder what way of installation people do prefer, and what tools we could optimize to make the experience as smooth as possible. I thought that just rawrite32 the CD ISO image to a USB stick should be enough, but have never tested that (besides rawrite32 could use some optimizations for large images, but that is another story). I have successfully created a bootable install USB stick from NetBSD by just newfs'ing it, using isntallboot and copying the install kernel there (in current this would include the necessary modules). But this would be a bit complicated for someone trying NetBSD the first time. So: what is the easiest way? Martin