Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!hermes.chpc.utexas.edu!xenon.brooks.af.mil!bsdns.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail
From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: New NetBSD user lost in new installion land
Date: 11 Aug 1993 09:41:00 -0500
Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX
Lines: 76
Message-ID: <24b0ea$9pt@hrd769.brooks.af.mil>
References: <andrew.745052041@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil
In article <andrew.745052041@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> andrew.moore@rdt.monash.edu.au writes:
>(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 ?
>
The 386bsd FAQ is available by anonymous FTP from
hrd769.brooks.af.mil:~/pub/FAQ. It is rapidly becoming a FAQ for "Net/2
Derived BSD for 386/486 PCs" instead of specifically 386bsd. Of course,
with the imminent departure of the FAQ coordinator, he is real busy
doing real work type stuff....
>
>I seem to be getting more than my fair share of errors.
>
The fair share is about 117.3; the average share is lower than that.
>(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.
>
I don't have a clue about this one.
>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 think that is odd... You are running the GENERICISA kernel when you
install. A "Good Thing" is to take out any definitions you do not need
(a brief list of which is included in the FAQ section about the
configuration file) and recompile. Of course, you should be creating
your own configuration file to match the configuration of your system.
>
>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) )
Each of these take up a lot of space each, as I recall...
If you remove DDB and whatever network drivers you don't need, you
should be able to get up to at least 24.
>
>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 ?
There are lots of lurkers. Not only that, but the FAQ is SO excellent
that there just aren't any unanswered questions...
{smirk}
Sorry, I couldn't resist...
--
------
TSgt Dave Burgess
NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office
Brooks AFB, TX