April 1, 2007 SYSINST 8

### NAME

sysinst - install or upgrade a NetBSD system

### SYNOPSIS

sysinst

### DESCRIPTION

sysinst is a menu-based program that may be used to install or upgrade a NetBSD system. It is usually invoked automatically when the system is booted from appropriate installation media.

sysinst is usually not present on a NetBSD system that has been fully installed.

### SEE ALSO

release(7), afterboot(8), boot(8), diskless(8), <machine>```/INSTALL.*` files on CD-ROM installation media, ```.../NetBSD-`<rel>```/`<machine>```/INSTALL.*` files in NetBSD releases or snapshots.

### HISTORY

A sysinst command appeared in NetBSD1.3.