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Old 17th October 2022
psarethi psarethi is offline
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Now I remember something that I've been running into that I forgot to mention in my original post. The guide does not correspond to the current version of the installer. The menus are different. It's actually impossible to follow the guide to install NetBSD to a specified partition. Just now I tried it again in qemu, to verify. Nope.

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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