I've been running NetBSD/i386 for about a month, and while most
things are moving along quite well, there are a few things that I seem
to keep having problems with or just can't figure out.  I was wondering
if anybody has any suggestions on how to solve them.

    First off, I have all my NetBSD partitions on a 1GB SCSI-II drive. 
I also have a 270MB IDE drive with DOS and OS/2 on it.  Ideally, I would
like to be able to mount the DOS drive (and the OS/2, if there's HPFS
support available for NetBSD).  However, from a rather recent thread, it
sounds like it will be difficult, since it's not the same drive NetBSD
is on.  If it helps, I made a 1MB NetBSD partition on the drive, but I
don't know what else to do.

    On a similar note, while my NetBSD drive seems to work fine, NetBSD
(or DOS or OS/2)'s fdisk all completely disagree with the drive's actual
layout.  I have 4 partitions ranging from 64 to 650MB in size.  However,
fdisk shows only 2 24MB partitions.  I take it this doesn't mean
anything to NetBSD, but if I were to use NetBSD's fdisk to make the
partition table correct, would that damage the data on the drive?


    Next, I'm running pcvt, and have been playing with the idea of
running "systat -vmstat" on one of the VC's (in place of getty). 
However, when I try to put the path/flags to systat in where the getty
entry was in /etc/ttys, I get the syslog  "init: getty repeating too
quickly on port /dev/ttyv5, sleeping".  What would be the "correct" way
to do this?

    And finally, does anybody have a termcap / terminfo file that allows
the use of the PC keys (delete, etc), or that works properly in an
xterm.  I've noticed that programs that try to use ncurses tend to trash
my xterm windows, and once again it'd be nice if some of the "special"
keys actually worked.  I compiled my own ncurses, is there a version I
should have grabbed from somewhere?  Also, I'm using the terminal
vt100-avo by default, as it's the only one that doesn't seem to cause
massive problems with pcvt (most programs seem to like dumping all
output to the bottom line of the screen if I don't use vt100-avo).

    I'd greatly appreciate any help on these topics.  Thanks in advance!

                                                          Will Ferry

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