On 4 Apr 2014 at 21:45, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > On 4 April 2014 21:13, Aleksej Saushev <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2) Can I start for an existing Netbsd-based live distro? Apparently > >> I've been told it's not a good idea. > > > > Sorry? It looks like a misinterpretation, since I didn't see this. > > In fact, I'd say that it would be great to try it out. > > Then I misunderstood what you wrote here: > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2014/03/27/msg014342.html > > I thought you meant it wasn't a good starting point. But I see you > have a project going on, so I'm looking forward to give a look at it > when it's ready. >
My attempts at an install system from a usb stick eventually worked well and was useful on my systems without cdrom drive. Unfortunately I managed to overwrite it. There were two downsides to my usb stick, although on a 16 G stick I only had about 500 MB of space with install system taking up most of that, secondly it was painfully slow. I've just now reinstalled the stick with 5 GB used for the filesystem: Filesystem Size Used Avail root_device 4.9G 443M 4.2G It needs some cleaning up but it boots ok. I also have NetBSD-6.1_STABLE-i386-live-sd0root.img.gz built from sysbuild, that can be transferred using 'dd'. David
