Re: 9.1 install comments

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 07:59:02AM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> > Standard case is you boot from the CD and it already is mounted as /
> > - so no further mounting needed.
> 
> Then perhaps the problem is that it's trying to mount it when it
> shouldn't be?  It was complaining about a mount failure.

I'll test that locally and see if I can reproduce.

> >> - When asking for a DNS server while configuring the network, it
> >>    seemed to think I was part of Google; [...]
> > You certainly can enter local IPs there (and normally wouldn't even
> > specify that if you did DHCP).
> 
> Yes, I did enter a local IP there.  (I don't know what happens with
> DHCP; I don't use DHCP on my house network.)
> 
> > Not sure what the problem is here.
> 
> Perhaps NetBSD doesn't think there is one.  It's an issue for me for
> NetBSD to be recommending, even to that mild an extent, the use of a
> third-party organization that makes a business of data harvesting and
> privacy invasion.

I totaly understand where you are coming from and why you do not want
these (and I didn't add the defaults), but it is good to have some 
working defaults (and there are not many clearly better alternatives out
there).

Martin