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6th October 2022
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NetBSD: installing to a specific existing partition
I've been testing some of the BSDs in qemu and then on real hardware. I have certain specific requirements including these next two.
One: the BSD must be installed to an existing partition, without disturbing any of the other partitions. Two: the BSD must not touch the existing boot loader. So far, OpenBSD can be made to do this. Yay! NetBSD is another matter. After consulting documentation, and after many tries, I am beginning to suspect that NetBSD can only be installed by letting it trash everything else on the disk and then putting in its own boot-loader. I did, at one point, find an older page describing how to do it, but it did not correspond to the current installer. Can NetBSD correctly be installed to a specified partition without touching the rest of the SSD/HD? If so, how? p.s. Yes I set the partition to a9 ahead of time. 
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