Re: Misc. quiestions

[Hynek Schlawack <hynek.s%web.de@localhost>]

Hello Adam

On 31-Mär-00, you wrote:

>>    1. How can I change the colors of the NetBSD screen?
>>    2. How can I change the resolution of the NetBSD screen?
> Read the manual for iteconfig ('man iteconfig').

Thank you, I'll try that out.

>>   3. What do I need and how do I set it up to make my news and mails
>> over NetBSD (nntp/pop3/smtp)?
> Try to use NetBSD package system.  Read manual for pkg_add and similar
> commands.  Try to fetch recompiled packages from NetBSD FTP server.

Hey, my problem ain't the packages :-), I need to now *which* packages to
use to get a PPP-connection. I have allready installed elm and tin.

>>   4. Is there anywhere a doc concerning the Amiga (except of the install
>> notes)?
>>   5. Is there a online doc for NetBSD? (I found in my local library only
>> "UNIX System V" which doesn't cover all administrative topics at all :-(.
> Start from http://www.netbsd.org/

Where do you think have I found the archives :-)? My problem is that I
didn't find anything there...any other hints?

>>    6. Makes it sense to install X-Windows on a pure AGA machine?
> If you don't have a gfx card - YES.  :)

Really? Should I really install it?

>>    7. How do I mount a amiga partition?
> First, find out how NetBSD sees Amiga partitions.  Use
>     disklabel <disk>
> to find partitions marked as ADOS.
> Then, mount the partition using
>     mount -t ados -o ro /dev/<disk> <mount_point>
> e.g.
>     mount -t ados -o ro /dev/sd0e /mnt

Or using mount_ados, I found it out myself at last...sorry for annoying you
all but it is everything very new to me...

Regards,
-- 
Hynek Schlawack ++ 7Wire Technologies ++ http://me.in-berlin.de/~hys