A critical look at NetBSD’s installer

NetBSD is an OS that I installed only a couple of times over the years, so I’m not very familiar with its installer, sysinst. This fact was actually what led to this article (or the whole series rather): Talking to a NetBSD developer at EuroBSDcon 2023, I mentioned my impression that NetBSD was harder to install than it needed to be. He was interested in my pe

https://www.osnews.com/story/142507/a-critical-look-at-netbsds-installer/

I upgraded my #NetBSD client in Hyper-V to 10.1. Wow that was easy and quick!

It has a 2GB virtual hard disk and 1024MB of assigned memory. My little oasis from Windows.

If you haven't already, register now for #BSDCan at https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html

The main North American BSD conference, in #Ottawa

Want to speak at EuroBSDcon 2025? Submit via https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/ (until 2025-06-21)

Main conferfence site: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/, Sponsoring: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/sponsorship.html

See you in Zagreb!

#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @eurobsdcon

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay ! NetBSD's efficiency and long-term support for diverse hardware help reduce e-waste. Let's all build sustainable solutions, in code and in the world, to #SustainableTech
#NetBSD @netbsd

I saw #NetBSD on Nintendo Wii at the NBUG booth at OSC Nagoya, so I tried it out at home. Finally NetBSD/evbppc -current (10.99.14) successfully booted. Yay!

A critical look at NetBSD’s installer

Link: https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-3-a-critical-look-at-netbsds-installer/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176919

#NetBSD #runbsd
Installing *BSD in 2025 part 3 – A critical look at NetBSD’s installer

https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-3-a-critical-look-at-netbsds-installer/

While tidying up the cabinet in my studio, I found this box with 3 CDs. Alpha, of course, refers to the architecture. And there's a long story behind it that made me smile - which I'll publish on one of my blogs soon.

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#NetBSD #m68k now has binary packages for clang and llvm.

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/10.0_2025Q1/All/

Does anyone want to give them a try?

Come September, there will be a gathering of #BSD developers and users in Zagreb, Croatia -- #eurobsdcon 2025.

See https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/ for details, and you can submit your talk or tutorial at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/cfp until 2025-06-21.

See you in Zagreb!

#conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @EuroBSDCon

Some photos of Nagoya *BSD Users' Group and Japan NetBSD Users' Group booth at Open Source Conference 2025 Nagoya (Japan) held on May 31.
We demonstrated some retro machines such as #NetBSD/macppc on Mac mini, NetBSD/evbarm on Raspberry Pi 3, NetBSD/i386 on Fujitsu laptop with old good Pentium CPU, NetBSD/evbppc on Nintendo Wii and #OpenBSD/luna88k and #FUZIX on LUNA-88K2 at the booth.
I also had a small talk about OpenBSD/luna88k and FUZIX. #oscnagoya

In a little more than a week, people like me will be heading to #Ottawa for #bsdcan.

You can still register for the conference at https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html, and browse https://www.bsdcan.org/ for info.