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Old 6th March 2013
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Originally Posted by J65nko View Post
If the NetBSD installer, which if I understand you correctly is on a USB stick, allows you to escape to the shell, you could run # ./MAKEDEV all manually.
No, as I told you, it hangs during the boot process, before I can get into shell or anything.

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Originally Posted by shep View Post
You may be making it more difficult by using the *.iso. NetBSD has *.img files for i386/amd64 that are specifically made for usb sticks. The are distinguished from *iso files by the suffix *.img
Yes, I already decided to go this way as it did make sense. Nevertheless, I tend to think that the contents of .img and .iso are supposed to be the same, as the one is generated from the other, see here:

$WIKI_NETBSD_ORG/tutorials/how_to_install_netbsd_from_an_usb_memory_stick/#index5h2

Unfortunately I didn't succeed in mounting the .img image (apparently because of it containing MBR), so I had to break my scheme and record it onto the first partition of my memory stick. Originally I wanted to keep the first partition for GRUB and "burn" the NetBSD installation distro onto the second one (making multiboot with other partitions hosting different OSes). So I still have to work on it a bit more, and I want to compare the contents of .img and .iso in order to see the difference.

Anyway, the installation went smoothly and now NetBSD is installed, thanks everyone for willingness to help.
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