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by saghm 3181 days ago
OT, but I've had trouble in the past when trying out NetBSD; I wanted to install it on my laptop with full disk encryption, but I clearly was missing something about how to do it properly, and I've never been able to find a good guide for it. Any chance you might know a blog post or something that details how to do this properly for a NetBSD newbie like me?
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I've run it in the past, but not recently. I'll see if something appears to me and try to post it here for you.

And good luck with your NetBSD journey, with or without FDE. I've thoroughly enjoyed my years with it as my primary OS.

I'd start here - https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-cgd.html and point your IRC client to #netbsd on irc.freenode.net.
Thanks! I've tried out most of the other common BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, and TrueOS) but I've always had more trouble with NetBSD for some reason. Hopefully I'll have better luck with it this time!