NetBSD/amd64 9.4-RELEASE

NetBSD 9.4 is out.

Opening screen for the installer for NetBSD/amd64 9.4

I was eager to see if the installer makes the same mistake when sizing the partitions as I had experienced while installing NetBSD 10.0 some days ago. It turns out I had the right hunch.

Automatic partitioning of the OS disk

Notice the swap partition got the majority of the available space, despite the text at the top claiming the root file system will get all the space.

Manual adjustment of the partition sizes

Manual adjustment of the partition sizes is the only way out of this predicament. I resized the swap partition to 16 GiB and gave the remaining free space to the root file system.

When configuring the network interface using the installer, I was only allowed to enter IPv4 parameters, but when asked to select a DNS resolver, I could happily select one of Google’s resolvers using IPv6 as the network protocol. The impedance doesn’t match. Please make the installer more IPv6 friendly, it is after all 2024.

After the first reboot, expect to edit /etc/ifconfig.*, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/resolv.conf as a minimum.