Re: Using pkgin on NetBSD 8.0

[Fabian Schreyer <fabianschreyer%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello Greg,

what I am trying to do is to run a basic webserver on it. Of course it
is just playing around, but I want to see if I can host a simple
website on such an old machine in a secure manner.

I currently have 72 megs of RAM installed in this machine.

Right now I hope I figure out how to cross compile stuff for this platform.

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Fabian Schreyer <fabianschreyer%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I just installed NetBSD 8.0 for the first time on my SPARCclassic. The
>> installer offered me to install pkgin via network, but this seems to
>> be unavailabe for 8.0. Also under
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sparc/ there is no
>> directory called 8.0.
>>
>> Does this just mean that there are no premade binarys for 8.0 yet, or
>> do I get something wrong?
>
> It is highly likely that there are no binary packages  yet, and it is
> not clear when/if they will appear.
>
>> Should I probably just use 7.0 for now?
>
> It depends.  If you don't want a large amount of packages, and you are
> willing to build some yourself, you can do that from pkgsrc sources.
>
> How much RAM do you have?  What are you trying to do?  A SPARCclassic is
> so old/small/slow that I am guessing you are running netbsd on it for
> run to see if it works, rather than trying to accomplish some real
> task.   But without knowing your intent, it's hard to give advice.
>