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it will download a distfile for Anita (an automated NetBSD installation tool),
which will download and install NetBSD 7.1-RC1 in a virtual machine on the local
which will download and install NetBSD 8_BETA in a virtual machine on the local
host. It then adds several tweaks to ensure that networking and storage will
work on GCE and packs the image into a tar.gz file.

**NOTE:** NetBSD versions older than 7.1-RC1 will not work. NetBSD-current is
fine.
Optionally, you can give the script an architecture (`i386` or `amd64`) and a
branch name as parameters, for example

```
bash ./make.bash amd64 HEAD
```

to install a 64-bit version of NetBSD-current.

**NOTE:** NetBSD versions older than 7.1-RC1 will not work at all, however all
NetBSD-7 releases are currently quite unstable. NetBSD-8 and NetBSD-current are
recommended.

**NOTE:** The image will not boot under Anita once the script has finished. This
is because qemu emulates an IDE hard drive while Google Persistent Disk uses the
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