Polprog's NetBSD Postinstall stuff

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Here's a list of the things i usually do on a freshly installed netbsd system of mine

1. install pkgin and X during installation
2. Set up PKG_PATH in ~/.shrc:
   

   PKG_PATH="http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/$(uname -s)/$(uname -m)/$(uname -r|cut -f '1 2' -d.)/All/"
   export PKG_PATH
         

3. Install bash, screen, web browser etc. and some WM (I usually go for icewm or windowmaker). Note that at this point, on a completely fresh (VM) install of NetBSD i ran out of space on my 2GB / partition.

4. Copy dotfiles over

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