NetBSD Installation Manual

In the case of a novice, the most intolerable installation of the NetBSD operating system is that there are many settings you are not familiar with, and there is a lot of geometry data you need to calculate, the calculation method also need to check online manuals and other reference content. However, it must be a very painful thing for you to just get in touch with such an operating system, even sometimes you will give up the interest in this kind of operating system. So how do you make the most convenient way for someone who has never used NetBSD and who are very interested in the operating system to install it?

The way we recommend it is to use VMware virtual machines and if you don't know about VMware virtual machines, visit the official site www.vmware.com where you can get the latest version of the trial product. Of course, you can also get some relevant help documents and other resources to download. For the specific use of VMware software, we no longer do a detailed introduction, you can refer to the online documentation.

Here we begin the magical journey of NetBSD OS Installation:

A VMware Virtual machine-related settings:

Following the usual method of creating a new virtual machine under VMware, a dialog box appears, which we can still use to install because VMware has not specifically set the NetBSD option in the guest operating system. Select the other item.

Select Next will appear the following dialog box, Virtual machine name fill in as NetBSD, and set up the operating system installation path, for the choice of the path we choose such a scheme, you can try to make your hard disk specifically designated a partition, specialized storage NetBSD operating system and its associated resources, which will not allow you to damage any of your other data in case of misoperation. But this is not absolute, the author chooses the plan is to own a hard disk partition specially divides to this operating system.

In the installation of the NetBSD operating system, there are many ways to choose, you can install through the network, but also through the CD-ROM to install, taking into account the security of the installation process, and many other factors, here we recommend to use the official ISO file for installation, this is a compressed file, You can download it through the official site of NetBSD, or you can download it through the current unique mirror site in China (the mirror site is located in the Network center of our school). The mirror services provided by our Network Center are as follows: Ftp://iso.cn.netbsd.org.

This basically completes the initial setup of the virtual machine:

Take into account operating system efficiency problems, try to avoid some of the operating system when you use the device is not commonly used, such as if you use NetBSD as a research or as a server system software, I think it is not much necessary to use the floppy disk drive, of course, If you choose Floppy drive to install this operating system I'm afraid I still have to keep it. In the CD-ROM setup we select the ISO file:

Now that we can start installing the operating system, click the start this virtual machine on the left and go to the installation process.