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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au!andrew From: andrew@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Andrew Moore) Subject: New NetBSD user lost in new installion land Message-ID: <andrew.745052041@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system) Reply-To: andrew.moore@rdt.monash.edu.au Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia. Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 06:54:01 GMT Lines: 40 (386/387 machine ISA bus with 1542C controller 8Mb of memory, EGA display system) I suppose the first (silly) question is is there an FAQ to help guide us through the installation/traps for young players etc apart from the INSTALL_NOTES file in the distribution ? I seem to be getting more than my fair share of errors. (apart from the install script on disk one erroring out before it actually did anything :-) ) In particular during the /etc/rc (after a successful installation) "Rebuilding databases" an error condition will occur and the system goes (quickly) into a reboot cycle (I dont actually get to see the error printed, too quick. Umm, I also can only get the GENERICISA kernel to compile, I tried to modify it (just to prove to myself I had "everything" installed) and, no go. (reporting too big for 640k with bss) I suppose I am used to Mips/Sparc style machines so I assume the kernel is simply too big, are there patches I can apply or other incantations I can make for this to work ? (I can be confident a percentage of the kernel is unnecessary (if it is GENERIC) however I was a just trying to increase the number of pty's ( to 16) ) Ho Hum, I shouldn't ask this but, I have noticed a distinct lack of traffic through the 386* groups (not non-existant, just low) I assume there are more than ten people actually using this OS ? Thanks for your ideas, Andrew. -- Andrew Moore | Department of Robotics and Digital Technology Ph: +61 3 565 3218 | Clayton Campus, Monash Uni, VIC 3168, Australia Fax: +61 3 565 3574 | Internet E-Mail: andrew.moore@rdt.monash.edu.au Be interested in the future, you will be spending the rest of your life there.