Re: keyboard layout

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Sep 24, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Catonano wrote:

> I managed to compile the whole thing on Ubuntu, with NO  
> modifications, just to see if I could. It's the 5.0.2 kernel
>
> I put it on a usb stick but of course I don't see how to mount it  
> under netBSD :-(
>
> It should show up as a SCSI or ATA disk ( sd or wd, check your dmesg  
> output ), the kernel should automatically generate a disk label for  
> it and I'm pretty sure FAT support is in macppc's GENERIC.
>
> can you help me ?
>
> I'll try.
>
> Yes, it's /dev/sd0*
>
> So GENERIC has support for FAT you say ? I tried with "mount -t  
> vfat..." and I got a message stating there's no mount_vfat module or  
> something (now I switched it off an d I can't remember exactly)
>
> Probably it's not vfat, could it be anything else ?

vfat is a linux thing. NetBSD has msdos which covers FAT, FAT32 and  
the various Win95 extensions.

> Or maybe it's easier to set up the network  and put the thing in a  
> shared folder on the Ubuntu machine ?
>
> That's much easier and you'll probably find it much more convenient  
> since it avoids a lot of copying stuff around and you don't have to  
> move that USB stick between machines constantly. What I usually do  
> is to export the build directory via nfs, mount it on the target  
> machine and have a script handy that just copies a freshly built  
> kernel.
>
> I tried but couldn't manage to set up the dhcp client. But now it's  
> late and I can't report about the dmesg output or anything.

Why would you even want dhcp for such a small network? Just assign it  
a static IP.

have fun
Michael

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