NetBSD installation
The kernel on the installation medium is booted and starts displaying a lot of messages on the screen, most of which say something about hardware not being found or not being configured. This is normal as the default install kernel tries to detect almost all the hardware supported by NetBSD; you probably don't have all these devices in your machine.
When the boot procedure is over you will find yourself in the NetBSD installation program, sysinst. From here on you should follow the instructions displayed on the screen, using the INSTALL.* document as a reference. You will find the INSTALL.* document in various formats in the root directory of the NetBSD release. The sysinst screens all have more or less the same layout: the upper part of the screen shows a short description of the current operation or a short help message; the central part of the screen shows the current settings as detected by NetBSD; the bottom part displays a menu of available choices. To make a choice, either use the cursor keys, the “Ctrl+N” (next) and “Ctrl+P” (previous) keys, or press one of the letters displayed left of each choice, and confirm your choice by pressing the Return key.
Start with the selection of the language you prefer for the installation procedure.
After choosing to continue with “Yes”, you select on which hard disk NetBSD shall be installed. If more than one disk is available, sysinst displays a list of disks from which you need to choose one. There are two disks, and NetBSD will be installed on “wd0”, the first IDE disk found. If you use SCSI or external USB disks, the first will be named “sd0”, the second “sd1” and so on.
Sysinst will then ask whether you want to do a full, minimal or custom installation. NetBSD is broken into a collection of distributions sets. “Full installation” is the default and will install all sets; “Minimal installation” will only install a small core set, the minimum of what is needed for a working system. If you choose “Custom installation” you can choose which sets you would like to have installed.
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