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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!news.serv.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!uni-reg ensburg.de!rfhs0003!feyrer From: feyrer@rfhs0003.fh.uni-regensburg.de (Hubert Feyrer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Few questions about NetBSD Followup-To: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Date: 6 Feb 1996 13:34:12 GMT Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany Lines: 49 Message-ID: <4f7lck$4eo@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> References: <1747.6610T551T2688@stack.urc.tue.nl> Reply-To: hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: rfhs0003.fh.uni-regensburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.amiga:12434 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2160 E. Durmin (eka@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote: > - Is it possible to boot NetBSD with a normal NTSC/PAL screen? > When I use 'loadbsd netbsd' I get an interlaced screen :( Hm, i guess you have to binpatch "some" symbol in the kernel... dunno which. What i do is have a 'iteconfig' in my /etc/rc.local, that resets the resolution when booting's done. (This has the drawback that it will clear your screen, though, and you won't be able to see the bootmessages!). > - On Linux it is possible to use virtual consoles... is it also possible on > NetBSD? Nope, not per default. Use "window" or "screen". > - On my Unix-account on the university I use 'csh' as my default shell. > I did this too on NetBSD, but when I press the cursorkeys I just get weird > characters. Usually it is possible to "go back to previous commands" when > pressing these keys. Heh, screwy Unix account that has a tcsh set up as csh. Get & use 'tcsh', it does what you want. > - I've heard that NetBSD uses a just little bit more memory than Linux... > I've downloaded top (top-3.3) and tried to start top. > It doesn't start... it says that there was no memory left... > Do I really have no memory left or is the swap partition not in use? > Does 'swapon -a' turns on the swap partition or is NetBSD automatically > turning on the swap-partition? AFAIK, NetBSD uses your swap-partition per default, you don't have to care. > I know that I don't have much memory (only 4 Mb), but on Linux I can > execute top more than once... This should be possible with NetBSD as well. > - How can I know if NetBSD is using the swap-partition and how much memory > is left? Eh, i guess the problem you have is that you have NetBSD 1.1 and a old top, which just puked on me with an 'out of memory' error. Gotta make one for 1.1... Hubert