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Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt (2026-08-15 18:37:49)
It's Saturday, so we sudo dd if=NetBSD-11.0-amd64-install.img of=/dev/disk6 for a fresh NetBSD install.
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Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt (2026-08-15 19:17:27)
The USB stick with NetBSD is prepared, the laptop is ready to go, the bootloader finds the OS, and then... The OS immediately fails to boot because it couldn't find the installation USB disk it was booting from.
Might have been a fluke, might have been an issue with some of the USB ports - I moved the stick to a different port, and things started to move.
The laptop is a second-hand (third-hand?) Dell with 11th generation Intel. It's not the best laptop for NetBSD, but with some tweaks, it is workable. I have had it working, but my ArcaOS install destroyed my partitioning table, so I want a fresh install, ideally with the encrypted root partition.
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