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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!news.funet.fi!nntp.utu.fi!utu.fi!sailalo From: sailalo@utu.fi (Saila Marjut Loikas) Subject: NetBSD hardware questions Message-ID: <Cx8IzK.11q@utu.fi> Sender: news@utu.fi (Usenet News admin) Nntp-Posting-Host: polaris.cc.utu.fi Reply-To: sailalo@utu.fi Organization: University of Turku, Finland X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 04:54:55 GMT Lines: 35 I have few hardware specific NetBSD questions: I have two IDE hd's (first one for dos and another for linux), is it possible to use first hd for dos and install NetBSD to second ? Or do I have to install NetBSD to first partition in order to make it boot (and if I have to do this, is it possible to use NetBSD's boot-manager and boot dos straight from second hd ?) ? How can I make (once installed) NetBSD support non-US keyboard and ISO-8859-1 character set ? Does NetBSD support more than 2 serial ports (I'd like to have at least three in use, 1 for mouse, 1 for modem and 1 for my lousy VT100 terminal) ? Main use for NetBSD for me is to serve as ray-tracing platform (sometimes as programming platform too), so I'd like to know if there's some targa/jpeg viewer which does _not_ use X-windows (I'm running out of memory, only 8mb now and there won't be more than 12mb within a year - so running X-viewers with 8mb may be some pain...) ? And last, but not least: I have NetBSD 0.9 basic binary distribution + whole source distribution, where can I find upgrade floppies for 1.0beta or 1.0whatever ? (I'd like to have shared libraries in use right in the beginning). Please reply by email, I'm sure these questions have been answered 1000 and 1 one times before, but I couldn't find answer to these, but main reason to that is that I couldn't find faq either... Have a nice day. Saila