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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!news.flint.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!oleane!jussieu.fr!not-for-mail From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.amiga,de.comp.sys.amiga.unix Subject: Re: netbsd1.2 on amiga Date: 11 Mar 1997 13:24:30 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Lines: 52 Message-ID: <5g3mee$maj$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> References: <33254EB3.3FEF@dimail.epfl.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: antifer.ipv6.ibp.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: fwernly@dimail.epfl.ch X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.39 (last pre-beta) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5595 comp.unix.amiga:15177 Fabien Wernly (fwernly@dimail.epfl.ch) wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using 1.2 on the Amiga. > I've successfully installed NetBSD1.2 and XR6.1 I don't use NetBSD on amiga, but on i386 and sparc ... So I can't anserw to all the questions. > > I have a few questions: > > 2) On startup, I get errors, like device tty1,tty2,...,tty6 not > configured > What does that mean? tty1..6 are usually the serial ports. I guess that the kernel didn't find all thoses, but something like ttyflags or getty is trying to open them. I think you can ignore them. > 3) How can I get a ppp access with my ISP provider > (PAP-authentification)? > What software do I need? All what you need should be in the NetBSD distribution. Have a look at the pppd and chat man pages. You will need to do your own scripts, wich are specific to your isp. > 4) Is there a f90 compilator? I don't think. But you can find a f77 f2c translator, or compilator (g77). > 5) I'd like to have a program that gives me a nice login-window on > startup, > like on Solaris. a) How to tell BSD to start it on startup? is there > something like an autoexec.bat on unix? /etc/rc and /etc/rc.local. > b) What software do I need? xdm. > 7) What is tk, tcl? tcl is an interpreted language. tk is a front end graphical interface for tcl. -- Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI. email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr --