Re: recompiling dwm with custom config.h

2014-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 01:34:17PM +0200, Béla wrote: Hi guys, Anybody using dwm out there? I'm quite new to NetBSD... I want to Please don't hijack threads. IOW, start a new message for a new topic, don't just grab an existing message and change the subject. -- If you're not careful, the

Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

2014-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 02:54:11PM +0100, Justin Cormack wrote: I think Virtualbox images are the modern equivalent way to get started. The main advantage over a USB live system is that you can still use the host operating system to read the instructions while you work out how to make it work.

Re: Issues with agr interface?

2014-04-06 Thread Havard Eidnes
I just tried to use agr(4) for the first time on NetBSD, on a host running NetBSD 1.6.3. It's coupled to a pair of Juniper stacked switches upstream. Ifconfig on the host does not show flags=COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING for one of the interfaces: You've got bnx under agr. I don't think bnx can

Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

2014-04-06 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 09:24:31AM -, David Lord wrote: My attempts at an install system from a usb stick eventually worked well and was useful on my systems without cdrom drive. Unfortunately I managed to overwrite it. There were two

Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

2014-04-06 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 6 April 2014 13:33, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: Once you understand that what you actually want is basically an image of hard drive of small capacity, you'll understand that you could have prepared some early prototype of your system already. I'm sorry but I disagree. There's a

Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

2014-04-06 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 6 April 2014 17:14, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: What is the reason then? Booting a system installed on SD card does not imply replacing the one installed on your hard drive (as implied by your proper installation). Applied to your project, is it a requirement or of any necessity?

Re: Issues with agr interface?

2014-04-06 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 11:37:07AM +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote: I just tried to use agr(4) for the first time on NetBSD, on a host running NetBSD 1.6.3. It's coupled to a pair of Juniper stacked switches upstream. Ifconfig on the host does not show flags=COLLECTING,DISTRIBUTING for one of

Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

2014-04-06 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com writes: On 6 April 2014 17:14, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: What is the reason then? Booting a system installed on SD card does not imply replacing the one installed on your hard drive (as implied by your proper installation). Applied

Re: Issues with agr interface?

2014-04-06 Thread Havard Eidnes
Hm, so the MAC address of each member should be set to the MAC address on the agr interface (which seems to be initialized to the MAC address of one of the members -- the first?)? Yes, the first. And none of this will work if the 2nd...nth interfaces have any network-layer addresses

Re: Issues with agr interface?

2014-04-06 Thread Havard Eidnes
Hm, so the MAC address of each member should be set to the MAC address on the agr interface (which seems to be initialized to the MAC address of one of the members -- the first?)? Yes, the first. And none of this will work if the 2nd...nth interfaces have any network-layer addresses

Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

2014-04-06 Thread Eric Haszlakiewicz
On April 6, 2014 7:33:34 AM EDT, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com writes: On 5 April 2014 16:56, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: LiveCD is of no use to people who have no functional CD drive or no CD drive at all. This is why it is the

Re: recompiling dwm with custom config.h

2014-04-06 Thread Béla
Sorry, my mistake On 04/06/2014 10:45, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 01:34:17PM +0200, Béla wrote: Hi guys, Anybody using dwm out there? I'm quite new to NetBSD... I want to Please don't hijack threads. IOW, start a new message for a new topic, don't just grab an existing

Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

2014-04-06 Thread Eric Haszlakiewicz
On April 6, 2014 1:52:29 PM EDT, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: Eric Haszlakiewicz e...@nimenees.com writes: On April 6, 2014 7:33:34 AM EDT, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com writes: On 5 April 2014 16:56, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru

Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

2014-04-06 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Eric Haszlakiewicz e...@nimenees.com writes: On April 6, 2014 1:52:29 PM EDT, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: It is relevant and this is exactly what constitutes major difference when you work on such a project. You don't need to think how to handle various things that require data

Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

2014-04-06 Thread David Lord
On 6 Apr 2014 at 15:27, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote: On April 6, 2014 1:52:29 PM EDT, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: Eric Haszlakiewicz e...@nimenees.com writes: On April 6, 2014 7:33:34 AM EDT, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com

Re: Making a localized, educational live-usb version of Netbsd? Possible, and is worth it?

2014-04-06 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 6 April 2014 23:14, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: If we want to use this definition, I'd argue that live USB in your sense is wrong approach to attack this particular problem. No changes allowed is rather strange for an educational platform, it means that you cannot save your work

Re: How to share paging file between NetBsd and Windows 7?

2014-04-06 Thread Brett Lymn
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 10:01:26AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote: | | -bash-4.2# chmod 600 /mnt/pagefile.sys | chmod: /mnt/pagefile.sys: Operation not supported Yes, chmod is not supported on NTFS. It is also not really meaningful with the NTFS semantics (would be emulated by removing the