"One limitation of this system as it currently exists seems to be that you need a working i386 NetBSD host to build the filesystem." One does not need a NetBSD

"One limitation of this system as it currently exists seems to be that you need a working i386 NetBSD host to build the filesystem." One does not need a NetBSD host. This is not the most time/space efficient method I can think of, but it's the easiest to explain... On Linux host: 1. Download for x in gnusrc sharesrc syssrc src;do ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.0/source/sets/$x.tgz&& tar xzf $x -C /;done 2. Compile toolchain mkdir /usr/obj PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin ./build.sh -m i386 tools 3. Make filesystem Using makefs instead of vnconfig + mount + newfs has the advantage that makefs is part of the toolchain while vnconfig is not makefs root.img fakecracker