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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Advice for new NetBSD (i386) user
Date: 18 Sep 1995 23:23:58 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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References: <MIKEZ.95Sep18104138@aire.open.ac.uk> <hvozdaDF43pq.Jt1@netcom.com>
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In-reply-to: hvozda@netcom.com's message of Mon, 18 Sep 1995 17:39:26 GMT
In article <hvozdaDF43pq.Jt1@netcom.com> hvozda@netcom.com (Eric S. Hvozda) writes:
In article <MIKEZ.95Sep18104138@aire.open.ac.uk>,
Mike Zanker <A.M.Zanker@open.ac.uk> wrote:
>1) Is there a UK keyboard map available? I've looked through my new
>installation and can't seem to find one.
Dunno, being an American and all, never had the need for one...
>2) How about virtual console support?
pcvt will do both of these I'm pretty sure. Check the mailing list
archives for more info. A new release was put out a while back too...
Also, "man pcvt", and look in /sys/arch/i386/isa/pcvt/."
>3) Is there a utility for adjusting the kernel timezone offset or must
>I recompile a new one?
Nopes, gotta recompile. The TIMEZONE keyword is what you want to
change...
Depends on what you're wanting to change. You need to rebuild the
kernel if you want to make your PC's real-time clock stay at the
correct local time while running NetBSD. If all you want is to have
the correct local timezone, set your clock under NetBSD correctly, and
you don't care what the hardware clock is off by, then link the
correct timezone file in /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime.
>4) Should I really be using the NetBSD-current distribution instead?
It won't make a difference on the things you asked about. Whether you
want to run it, or not, is up to you, but these issues don't effect
that.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
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