Hi all;

I'm having fun so far, here's some questions that I've not found 
answers to, yet.
Thanks for any pointers.  Some of these may be easily answered with 
research- but some I've looked into a little  bit already, some I've 
only looked casually yet.  I'm not new to unix although this is my 
first time setting up something from scratch (Qube 2, 128 RAM, 1.6.1 
install from Dennis' CD image).

1) Is there a searchable archive for this list?

	I haven't found one yet, although I thought that would be a problem 
,there's not a huge amount of traffic here and I've read back (subjects 
anyway) into 2002, so far.   I just have this feeling that everything I 
want to ask, has been asked before.

2) What are major packages that aren't ported to MIPS yet (what will I 
be missing out upon)?  I have only found acrobat reader (any version) 
unavailable so far (from pkgsrc attempts to compile).  Although I read 
a post from a while ago that said one of PHP/MySQL (I forget which) 
wasn't runnable even though it would compile (is that  right?)

2a) I was going to web-publish a small database from NetBSD, if not 
PHP/MySQL what else would work?

3) Is the default partitioning provided by the installer CD really the 
best format?

bash-2.05# df -a -m
Filesystem  1M-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a       53556      767     50111     1%    /
/dev/wd0f        2016        3      1912     0%    /var
/dev/wd0g         484        0       460     0%    /tmp
bash-2.05#

is how it set my partitions.  I guess I'm going to live with it; for 
some reason, I want to think that more would be better. Can I 
repartition on the fly as I've done with other filesystems?  I had a 60 
gig drive spare but of course I'm wishing I had started with a 120, now.

4) is getting an external SCSI HD going a major pain or should it just 
work?  right now, my Adaptec 2940U card is installed with no drive 
attached, the original kernal fom the installer, I get ahc0:  data 
parity errors constantly.  Tomorrow perhaps I'll hook up a drive and 
see if they go away :)  I tried on adjustkernal and compile of the new 
kernal but it errored out at  ..perhaps.. the ethernet, and I've not 
got back  to that yet.   Google turns up mentions of this error, 
NetBSD, and IRQ issues in the BIOS of i386 machines; nothing for me and 
a  Qube I think.   I have a pretty decent sized external SCSI drive 
just sitting, and was thinking of using it for system backups.   I need 
t o play with this, next.  I suspect the hundreds of errors are causing 
some slowdown, too.

5) I'd like to use the modem port on the Qube to provide one PPP line, 
for dial-up- should that work OK?

6) What the heck is the name of a vt100 shell "GUI" using vt100 cursor 
positioning, that I can't recall the name of?  I've seen a couple in 
use but...

There's more, but I can't think of them at the moment...

Thanks for any help;

Brian