YES! Thank you very much, Steve. I am downloading the -bios- image now, and thanks to your pointer, I am on my way to getting 10.1 installed.
As an aside, the machine is a Fujitsu FMVS7EN7S7. I like it because it is compact in size and the power consumption is fairly low. Probably important only to me, it also is made in Japan, and has a higher ratio of Made-In-Japan components than most factory-produced PCs. It is a Windows 7 vintage machine, and I think one of the earliest 64-bit machines of somewhat reasonable cost. Because the display is starting to fail, I want to use it as a "home server": ssh login (text only), two-account mail server, and lightweight httpd. Best regards to all, Henry 2025年8月30日(土) 10:48 Steve Rikli <[email protected]>: > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 10:19:03AM +0900, Henry wrote: > > I'm wanting to install 10.1 amd64 onto an older machine that can't > > handle efi. Is there a cookbook, step-by-step instruction page > > somewhere to put the image on a mbr format usb? I only seem to be > > able to put the image (NetBSD-10.1-amd64-install.img.gz) on an efi > > format usb. > > > > I apologize for my slowness. Age is catching up; that's for sure. > > TIA netbsd community. > > If I understand your situation correctly, I think you simply want to > use the mbr-style img rather than the other one; reference: > > https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.1/amd64/INSTALL.html#Quick%20install%20notes%20for%20the%20impatient > > ... scroll down a bit to the part in the doc describing the boot images: > > "Note the amd64 architecture has two images, NetBSD-10.1-amd64-install.img.gz > and NetBSD-10.1-amd64-bios-install.img.gz. The latter is intended for older > hardware which is unable to boot using a hybrid MBR and GPT image." > > In your case, I think you'd use NetBSD-10.1-amd64-bios-install.img.gz for > USB boot media. > > There are uncompressing and dd'ing notes in that same INSTALL doc, plus > an overall walkthrough for the sysinst procedure. > > Cheers, > sr.
