Re: How to get some needed binaries for an old installation (to do a system update to NetBSD 9.3)

2023-10-10 Thread Christian Groessler
On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, Dennis Dingeldein wrote: > I am trying to update a MicroVAX 3100, running an old NetBSD 1.5.3. > > My idea was to add NetBSD 9.3 on another disk. So I attached an additional > hard drive to the machine and wanted to partition that disk and partition it. > > On one

Re: Is this normal floppy behavior?

2023-01-05 Thread Christian Groessler
On 1/5/23 21:32, Michael Cheponis wrote: fascinatingly, now, when I try to "umount" the filesystem: *# umount /a umount: /a: Device busy* Fascinating, from what you wrote you might still "be" in /a regards, chris

Re: LTFS support for HP tape drive devices

2022-07-13 Thread Christian Groessler
On 7/14/22 00:20, Brett Lymn wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 09:15:23AM +0200, Colo Colo wrote: I have try to make LTFS working on LTO tape drive on FreeBSD but HP drives are not supported on FreeBSD. Is LTFS supported on HP drives on NetBSD ? It doesn't appear like LTFS is supported at

Re: Question about /home

2022-01-22 Thread Christian Groessler
On 1/22/22 18:20, Todd Gruhn wrote: is /home in the / directory? What happens if / is too small? Can it be moved to /usr? I recall that /home had its own filesystem/sector once upon a time... You can set it up as you wish. On some systems I don't have a /home at all, there my home dir

Re: git mirror?

2021-09-13 Thread Christian Groessler
Thanks! Looks good On 9/13/21 5:12 PM, Miko wrote: > is there some semi-official git mirror? Yes; https://github.com/NetBSD/src -- ~miko

git mirror?

2021-09-13 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, is there some semi-official git mirror? Not that I dislike cvs, I'm using it since over 20 years. But git is so much faster when creating and checking out branches. Even with a local copy of the cvs repo. regards, chris