Re: Newbie questions

[Lars Hecking <lhecking%nmrc.ucc.ie@localhost>]

David Brownlee writes:
> 
> On Mon, 25 May 1998, Lars Hecking wrote:
> 
> >  1) Is there any possibility to tell the kernel which video mode
> >     to boot into? I have to take out my EGS Spectrum to run NetBSD
> >     because the default video mode is too much for the monitor
> >     (38k SVGA).
> > 
>       Can't help on this one (I run other NetBSD ports)

 Too bad. This is most inconvenient :(

[virtual consoles]
>       All ports can run 'screen' (available in the packages collection),

 That's just fine. Could have thought of this myself ...

>       NetBSD has ktrace & kdump. ktrace dumps the system call
>       information to ktrace.out, kdump decodes the output file.
>       My guess is you'll want to chmod the keyboard device, or use
>       xdm. Personally I use xdm :)

 Hhm, I have never used xdm. Could give it a try, though.

[can't mount ext2fs]
>       Have you 'file-system     EXT2FS' in your kernel config?

 Nope. Why did I think it would be in GENERIC? :)
 I compiled a new kernel now, but disklabel sd1 still shows "unused".

Joern Clausen writes:
> 
> To use my Archive Viper, I do first
> 
>    mt fsr 1
>    mt rewind
> 
> and sequent accesses with mt, tar or dump work fine. I guess, this kind
> of "initializes" something, err, or maybe not...

 You're probably right. These commands make it work for me, too,
 with both rst0 and nrst0.

bsieker%techfak.uni-bielefeld.de@localhost writes:
[startx]
> Make sure the Xserver is setuid root.
> (e. g. chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xamiga)

 Needless to say, it wasn't ...


 Another problem has surfaced: the HD floppy driver seems broken.
 When I untar a floppy written on a SunOS machine, the resulting files
 are corrupt. On AmigaOS and Linux, they are just fine. I use
 tar xvf /dev/fd0b.
 
 Thanks for all the feedback!

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