On Fri May 27, 2005 at 03:09:08PM -0700, Simeon Nifos wrote:
> Hallo everybody,
> I am a new user migrating from FreeBSD, where I had 
> hardware troubles with AMD64 archs. I would like a
> little
> help to begin!
> 
> 1:) Please send me a sample .cshrc. 
>     up down keys do not work, delete key doesn't work
> and 
>     neither does tab key. Couldn't netbsd people make
> our
>     life easier with that?

% csh
thunder% [A
<up> works for me

thunder% [B
<down> works for me

thunder%        
<tab> also creates a tab


FreeBSD uses tcsh as its /bin/csh and there is no command-line editing in csh.  

You can either install the tcsh which will install in /usr/pkg/bin, or try out 
the interactivness of standard csh or /bin/ksh has command line editing with:
set -o emacs 
bind "^I=complete"

But I warn you when dealing with lots of different systems, the bourne shell 
derivitives all can have dirrerent behavior depending on the OS.

Linux /bin/sh is really bash
*BSD /bin/ksh is not att ksh #smiley faced emoticon#

For plain old csh on any system I set in my .cshrc:
set history=1000
set filec 

So what do you gain with this?
!command or !history# reissues a previous command
cd /et<esc> is filename completion

 
> 2:) Please let me know where can I download a cd iso 
>     image with precompiled packages for i386. 

See: http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/using.html


> 
> 3:) Are there any Nvidia drivers available?

For XFree86?  If its not in nv_drv.o than I'm not sure about this one.
I have iXfree86 4.4.0 and I apparently have it nv(4).
 
> 4:) Suppose I have a Linux Library library.so. 
>     And I want to link it with my main.c compiled
>     in NetBSD. How can I achieve that?

You need Linux compatibility compiled in your kernel, plus the 
linux emulation area populated.

see compat_linux(8)

> 
> 5:) Some simple tunings I can apply on the fly
>     (memory,disk,net)?

This really depends on your system and the applications you want to use.

-- 
Courtney R. Spencer