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Originally Posted by psarethi
Looks like the only way to jam NetBSD into an exiting partition is to make a hard disk in qemu that is the intended size plus one meg, then let the installer wipe all and fill the emulated disk, then, after the install, dd it out to the real partition. That's a bit too Rube Goldberg for me.
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Just for the sake of transparency and correct information: this isn't true. By default, sysinst:
- will allow one to select existing partitions (and either re-format them or not) alongside their mountpoint. I've done this multiple times.
- will allow to avoid writing the bootcode to the MBR or th GPT's PMBR. It doesn't configure a GPT disk as a dedicated BSD label and can be therefore multi-booted with a second OS installed on the same disk.
- by dropping to the command line the user can manually manipulate the disk layout, including creating ecrypted disks, LVM volumes, ZFS pools, which can be later selected as a destination for the sets to be installed via sysinst.