If anyone has ansers to any of the questions that are not in the
	existing FAQs then it would be quite excellent if they could
	email in some additions (no need to have any HTML) to
	www@netbsd.org

	The best resource for help we have is what people contribute
	to the FAQs :)

		David/absolute		abs@mono.org

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|          too drunk to care          |    the hell of the night before    |
|  looked like death, felt like hell  |   I've been drinking myself blind  |
`------ been the worse for wear ------'-- and still I'll drink some more --'

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Bob Lantz wrote:

> No, this is not the way it is!! 1.4 pmax works great. However,
> I recommend reading all available FAQs on the netbsd web site.
> This will help you out.
> 
> Here are a couple of thoughts on your first questions:
> 
> On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, wb2oyc wrote:
> 
> > Here's why:
> > 
> > 1) Every boot puts me in single user.  Is that supposed to happen?
> >    The reason I ask is for the life of me I can't see where any error
> >    preceeded that, but whether I do a normal shutdown or not, there 
> >    are always errors found on the disk when I do fsck at that point.  
> >    Hardware problem maybe?
> 
> Have you edited /etc/rc.conf? Are you doing a boot or boot -a rather than
> a boot -s?  I believe these items are mentioned in the FAQ. 
> 
> > 2) What is the proper response to the prompt "Terminal type"?  No matter
> >    what I tell it, if I have a file in an editor (vi, joe, whatever) the
> >    file does not scroll when you reach the bottom line or using Next on
> >    the edit keypad.  When in X, I can use them ok in an xterm but not at
> >    the console.  Reading a man page is fine...scrolls properly, etc.  I
> >    had to ftp the rc.conf file to another system so I could edit it, and
> >    then put it back after the original install to get around this...at
> >    that point there was no X.
> 
> rcons - definitely a FAQ but I am not sure it's in the FAQ.
> 
> > 3) How to stop messages from corrupting the root window when in X?  Will
> >    being logged in as my user account stop this maybe?
> 
> This is the same as any Unix platform.  Make a console xterm, 
> e.g. xterm -c. 
> 
> >    "child exited with status 1" and then pkg_add asking "is this a 
> > package"?
> > 
> > 5) Then, if I ftp that same package over to the pmax and use pkg_add, it 
> > blows
> >    up, and messages from the lockmgr saying "I'm locking against myself" 
> > and
> >    the pmax reboots and ends up at the boot prompt.
> > 
> > 6) The first attempts to use pkg_add failed because there were no 
> > directories
> >    created under /usr for it...I manually had to add the /pkg and those 
> > under
> >    it (bin, lib and so on).  Did I forget others maybe?  Or, why didn't 
> > the 
> >    install do this, or is there something else I'm supposed to do that 
> > would
> >    take care of it?  The FAQ or none of the other doc's I've read mention 
> > that
> >    this is a postinstall step...
> 
> Uh, is your /usr filesystem mounted?? 
> 
> > 
> > Have I wasted this install and actually made things worse?  Should I just 
> > start
> > over?  Oh, the original install was a netboot and NFS deal, so its not 
> > like I
> > have the CD on the pmax.
> > 
> > bummed out!
> > Paul
> 
> Don't sweat it. Becoming your own sysadmin isn't hard, really - it just
> requires a bit of documentation reading and investigation.
> 
> The great thing about NetBSD is it's BSD Unix - it's pretty well
> understood and documented. In general, things work the way they do on
> any other BSD system. Occasionally, the work a lot better!
>