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- python 3
- NetBSD 9_STABLE, not beta (duh)
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bsiegert committed Jan 27, 2022
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* cdrtools
* GNU tar (http://pkgsrc.se/archivers/gtar)
* GNU coreutils (http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/coreutils)
* Python 2.7
* Python 3
* python-pexpect (http://pkgsrc.se/devel/py-pexpect)

When you run
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```

it will download a distfile for Anita (an automated NetBSD installation tool),
which will download and install NetBSD 9_BETA in a virtual machine on the local
which will download and install NetBSD 9_STABLE 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.

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**NOTE:** NetBSD-8 is the oldest supported NetBSD release. NetBSD-9 or
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
`vioscsi` driver.

## How to use the created image (i.e. how to get started on GCE)

The how-to below describes how to do the required operations in a web browser.
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