Re: [Solved] Re: Cannot boot, was: Re: Can't install NetBSD to ffs2 partition, no errors

ut if you've already gone that far > and use GRUB instead, why not load the kernel directly from there? > > menuentry "netbsd -v" { > insmod ufs2 > set root=(hd0,gpt2) > knetbsd /netbsd -v > } > Too late. I deleted the partition. -- Otta

Black screen resume from suspend

hipset and I'd like to know if I'm going to have the same problem. Thanks. -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: [Solved] Re: Cannot boot, was: Re: Can't install NetBSD to ffs2 partition, no errors

On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 at 11:45, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 at 12:05, Ottavio Caruso > > Recap: on my system (hd0,gpt2) is the second partition containing all > the EFI boot files (NetBSD, Linux and Windows); (hd0,gpt5) is the > NetBSD partition. > > Step

Cannot boot, was: Re: Can't install NetBSD to ffs2 partition, no errors

On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 at 18:42, Martin Husemann wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 04:13:31PM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > 5) Selected NetBSD (dk6@wd0) > > > > 6) The menu goes back to point 3 without any apparent errors. > > > > I would have expected the me

Mounting Linux swap, during or post installation

to edit the Linux swap partition to have it recognised as swap by NetBSD? I am pretty sure we discussed it at length a few weeks ago on irc but I didn't save the chat. -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing

Re: Can't install NetBSD to ffs2 partition, no errors

On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 at 16:13, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > Hi, > > 1) I have dd'ed the UEFI usb image of NetBSD 9.3/amd64 to a USB drive > and booted from it. > > 2) From the utility menu, I have created a FFSv2 partition from 35GB > unused space > https://i.ibb.co/XxVy1

Re: Can't install NetBSD to ffs2 partition, no errors

On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 at 16:34, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 at 16:13, Ottavio Caruso > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > 1) I have dd'ed the UEFI usb image of NetBSD 9.3/amd64 to a USB drive > > and booted from it. > > > > 2) From the

Can't install NetBSD to ffs2 partition, no errors

Hi, 1) I have dd'ed the UEFI usb image of NetBSD 9.3/amd64 to a USB drive and booted from it. 2) From the utility menu, I have created a FFSv2 partition from 35GB unused space https://i.ibb.co/XxVy1M9/gpt-show-wd0.jpg https://i.ibb.co/4sSCXmw/partition-manager.jpg 3) Then I went back into the

Re: Does any common mortals here (not programmers or sysads) use NetBSD as their daily productivity driver?

, stay away. Yes, I know , there's a bit of unnecessary bitterness in my statement but please change my mind. -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: Upgrading software with pkgsrc

ht in Ye Olde BSD Saloon. > I don't understand why NetBSD must have an additional tool like pkgin to perform full upgrades whereas in OpenBSD you can just upgrade the whole lot with "pkg_add -u". It looks like a case of "not invented here" that plagues the *BSD ecosphere.

Does any common mortals here (not programmers or sysads) use NetBSD as their daily productivity driver?

If so, what can you not do on NetBSD that you can do on any other OS? I'm pretty sure I'm going to miss DRM. What else do I have to put up with? -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q

Fwd: NetBSD Security Advisory 2022-001:

/ 2fLnbz096bnOOR237196YNG1e167a80TW14648Haw9sODZ26N9orv/Lh2UPPvnvr /v1XTCtOrr9x7YYLjpYWnPTc+3vPKN7ZX1v1+K4PH7mj7cc/ff/GfVt3dzx47rKH XsgXDpxmHWjvn7p/xpypf/j1G9e/OG3upY+1PN0/9dOnd8mNfxsuLey4/AeH2O0v H9zz77tfeP57a1++NfvAq48OZgbfPPnj/wE= =DPef -END PGP MESSAGE- -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Fwd: Can't get audio, host Debian, guest NetBSD, help!

On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 12:09, RVP wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Mar 2022, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > 2: [ ] audio1 @ hdafg0: vendor 1af4 product 0022 > > playback: 2ch, 48000Hz > > record: 2ch, 48000Hz > > (PR) slinear_le 16/16, 2ch, { 16000, 2205

Re: Fwd: Can't get audio, host Debian, guest NetBSD, help!

On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 20:17, RVP wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2022, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > It does not produce any sound through qemu but it generates an output on > > stdout: > > > > oc@NetBSD:/home/oc$ audiocfg test 1 > > 1: [*] audio0 @ eap0: E

Has anybody recently migrated from *cough* Linux to NetBSD?

or add more partitions (slices)? This is where it gets complicated, at least for me, and is holding me back from installing NetBSD alongside Linux. And no, I can't install a 2nd hard drive, This is an old Thinkpad. -- Ottavio Caruso

Fwd: Can't get audio, host Debian, guest NetBSD, help!

Forwarded over to netbsd-users@, in case you can help. -- Forwarded message - From: Ottavio Caruso Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 at 14:35 Subject: Can't get audio, host Debian, guest NetBSD, help! To: qemu-discuss I am playing with audio and I know that the syntax has changed. I

Re: I have botched my disklabel. Can I recover my data?

On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 11:07, J. Hannken-Illjes wrote: > > > On 15. Mar 2022, at 11:25, Ottavio Caruso > > wrote: > > > > Memo to myself: backup! > > > > In a failed attempt at editing the disklabel, I eventually deleted it > > and obviously I could

I have botched my disklabel. Can I recover my data?

old disk and dump it somewhere else. It's a qemu disk, so it's no big deal creating one more. The problem is that I had a lot of data. This is what I see from the recovery shell: Any help will be appreciated. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: pkgin repo

/ which should be a symlink to the latest current builds, if cdn.* follows the same layout as ftp.* -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: How to invoke 'make' for updating a meta package?

themselves get updated every now and again, so you can run "make update" on them, but I'd personally use pkgtools/pkg_rolling-replace in the cvs root directory. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: project primarily for experienced users?

is good, whether it is BSD, Solaris, Linux or even Android or MacOS. You're right in thinking NetBSD/pkgsrc have the best community around. However, the OpenBSD crowd are not really hostile. They bark a lot but don't bite. -- Ottavio Caruso

OT: emails from @sdf.org marked as spam by Yahoo Mail, was Re: Network very very slow... was iSCSI and jumbo frames

not up    to spec with some cards and mere Cat-5 cables.) -RVP -- Ottavio Caruso

Weird lastlogin output

7 10:55:59 2020 Any clue of what (0) could be? -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: With 8G RAM would RPI4 be a decent QEMU host?

On 05/12/2020 11:55, Mayuresh wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 10:07:58AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: I'm interested in the subject. I remember asking a similar question on the OTFC channel #qemu and the general consensus was that the RPI in general was not a good qemu host at all

Re: With 8G RAM would RPI4 be a decent QEMU host?

if it is workable. If amd64 were to work (with decent speed) the pkgsrc package availability would improve. I'm interested in the subject. I remember asking a similar question on the OTFC channel #qemu and the general consensus was that the RPI in general was not a good qemu host at all. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: qemu: How to detach / reattach to console in -nographic mode?

. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Mailing-list misconfiguration?

(but sending via SMTP because ... NetBSD), I can see a header: DKIM-Signature: Does Gmane add this or Majordomo? If the former, I can only be thankful to Gmane for allowing me read messages that otherwise will be marked as spam. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Mailing-list misconfiguration?

On 09/11/2020 20:16, Rhialto wrote: On Mon 09 Nov 2020 at 08:55:51 +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: In comparison, my "From" header to the FreeBSD mailing lists are rewritten in the form of: From: Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions Personally, I would consider everything that chang

Re: Mailing-list misconfiguration?

ot; header to the FreeBSD mailing lists are rewritten in the form of: From: Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions I'm sure this would make everything easier to all of us who have to rely on free and popular email services and/or 3rd party services like Gmane. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Large size console font possible?

to a)Prevent NetBSD from switching to a small font b)ideally select a large size font for NetBSD to use on the console (meaning: not in X) Any chance you have "vesa on" in /boot.cfg ? -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Large size console font possible?

On 08/11/2020 20:21, Michael Huff wrote: Nope. After reading your mail, I tried setting it to "vesa=off" and that didn't seem to make any difference. Just remove "vesa=on". It should force boot into 80x25. -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which

Re: NetBSD-9.1

On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 14:55, Pedro Pinho wrote: > > Yes, I know but, they shouldn't be there. Why not? It's extra information that doesn't hurt. -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-p

/etc/ifconfig.nnX vs /etc/rc.conf vs /etc/dhcpcd.conf

for which reason. Thanks. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: NetBSD-9.1

(this host) pkg_add: Warning: package `ncurses-6.2nb2' was built for a platform: pkg_add: NetBSD/x86_64 9.0 (pkg) vs. NetBSD/x86_64 9.1_STABLE (this host) ... == It doesn't look very pleasing... Can something be done to avoid such warnings in future releases? You can ignore those warnings.

Re: grep "--color=always" doesn't (always) work with "-i"

On 22/10/2020 10:47, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi, $ uname -a NetBSD NetBSD 9.0_STABLE NetBSD 9.0_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Sat May  9 08:21:36 UTC 2020 mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64 My shell is ksh. /usr/bin/grep --color=always "DUID" -r /usr

grep "--color=always" doesn't work with "-i"

rs and removing quotes, without success. As a term of comparison, the same command works as intended on OpenBSD and Linux. Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug? -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: acpibat0 error message at terminal login

the terminal? Edit /etc/syslog.conf (the line with /dev/console). -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Drive ID changed

not NetBSD. -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: Drive ID changed

, at least not on MBR disks. -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Where can I get a list of all "variable=value" that pkg_admin can set?

ther practical use of the "set" command? Is there a list of all possible variables that pkg_admin can set, or is that it? -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Weird tty* error messages in a qemu guest with "-vga none".

On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 12:40, Martin Husemann wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 12:34:23PM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > In /var/run/rc.log: > > [running /etc/rc.d/wscons] > > wsconscfg: Cannot open `/dev/ttyEcfg': Device not configured > > wsconscfg: Cann

Weird tty* error messages in a qemu guest with "-vga none".

/libexec/getty Pc" wsvt25 on secure ttyE3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" wsvt25 on secure What does this all mean? -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: mailing lists cannot be searched from the new web pages

-users 2020/07 "ci4ic4" > > finds my messages to the list this month (although it did find a few > dmesg logs I've posted on https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/). There used to be a form: https://web.archive.org/web/20191018191851/http://mail-index.netbsd.org/ -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: OT: User-friendly /bin/sh

ksh if [ -n "$KSH_VERSION" ]; then # include .kshrc if it exists if [ -f "$HOME/.kshrc" ]; then . "$HOME/.kshrc" fi fi And my .kshrc : export HISTFILE=$HOME/.ksh.history export HISTSIZE=1000 PS1='$(whoami)@$(hostname):$PWD$ ' export PAGER="less" export LESS="-i -m +Gg" export TERM=xterm -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Living with Rust

blishes official binaries, which can be selected with "bin" to avoid the lengthy bootstrap process. This includes x86_64 Darwin, NetBSD, and Linux. - RUST_TYPE defaults to bin on NetBSD/amd64. This is a workaround for difficulties with the normal (source build with a binary bootstrap) build method. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: I finally bricked my NetBSD system

e rejected because the shell cannot be > found. > > Is there a work-around? > > Thank you Boot from the installation media, chroot and fix. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: pkgsrc build server

./../mk/depends/bsd.depends.mk # SKIP_DEPENDS # Whether to run the ``depends'' phase. This is probably only # useful for pkgsrc developers. # # Default value: no I'm not sure what the practicality of this option is, to be honest. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: does anyone have a working mozilla firefox-74.0 on 9.0 amd64?

nally better. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: possible new feature: unrm ?

t that a grand idea --- shouldn't we do that for ALL files, by default? It is a terrible idea. Feel free to cvs your drive but imposing this on everybody by default, thanks but no thanks. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: possible new feature: unrm ?

o rm to really remove them(e.g. temp files). > > I can't actually get to download that script. I used to have a script that moved the file to ~/Trash and then aliased that to rm. Or just: alias rm='rm -i' -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Providing temporary storage space to a VM: qcow, nfs etc

pecific block device to each of the above. You'd have to play with machine types and virtio devices to have more than 4 drives. Qemu "-drive" invocation defaults to ide drives. -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-postin

Re: Providing temporary storage space to a VM: qcow, nfs etc

o, that is using a Linux host to build pkgsrc in *BSD guests, and I also want to find an elegant way to export my cvs tree from host to guest) -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: mount qcow2 image : qemu-nbd or otherwise

vert the .qcow2 image to raw with qemu-img? I know there is a size penalty, but it might save you headaches later. I've also found that .qcow2 images tend to expand in size very quickly. -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting s

Re: Internet access to qemu guest via bridge0

ou cannot ping or traceroute out if you use standard user mode. -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: UEFI serial bootloader

t as far > as I know it does not, so there is no way I can set up both bootloader > and kernel to serial device on real hardware. > > Is there any clue to check why it happens or any way to debug pxeboot? Maybe reinstalling the bootblocks with console=auto ? https://man.bsd.lv/NetBSD-8.0/amd64/installboot#o -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: can't find ping, route and ifconfig commands.

st leaves a log on the installed system. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: can't find ping, route and ifconfig commands.

On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 16:49, Christos Zoulas wrote: > > In article > , > Ottavio Caruso wrote: > >On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 11:14, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > > >> However, most users by default don't have /sbin and /usr/sbin in their > >> path, so you

Re: can't find ping, route and ifconfig commands.

On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 16:47, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > On 2020-06-14 17:20, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 15:01, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > > >> /etc/skel/{.profile,.cshrc} are just suggested files that you can copy > >> over

Re: can't find ping, route and ifconfig commands.

s created. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: can't find ping, route and ifconfig commands.

e PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/usr/pkg/bin PATH=${PATH}:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin oc@NetBSD:/home/oc$ grep sbin /etc/skel/.cshrc set path = (~/bin /bin /sbin /usr/{bin,sbin,X11R7/bin,pkg/{,s}bin,games} \ -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: can't find ping, route and ifconfig commands.

(wheel) $ echo $PATH /home/oc/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin $ uname -rs NetBSD 9.0_STABLE -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: can't find ping, route and ifconfig commands.

quot;echo $PATH" for your standard user? -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: can't find ping, route and ifconfig commands.

(wheel) $ echo $PATH /home/oc/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin $ uname -rs NetBSD 9.0_STABLE -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Installing debian packages on netbsd?

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 11:25, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Ottavio Caruso writes: > > > Incidentally (I haven't tried this myself but I could), I wonder if, > > instead of installing all the related compat packages from pkgsrc, one > > could just untar one of these root f

Re: Installing debian packages on netbsd?

gsrc, one could just untar one of these root filesystems into /emul/linux: https://us.images.linuxcontainers.org/images/ For example, the Ubuntu one in this particular case. These are meant for docker, but I use them in a chroot on my Debian laptop and they work alright. (It anybody wants to try them, the ones named "rootfs.tar.xz") -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Installing debian packages on netbsd?

might not work. https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-linux.html https://www.netbsd.org/docs/compat.html -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Update /usr/pkgsrc

packages might just work as they are. (Jay: top-posting and html make a mess of keeping replies in context.) -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Cannot interact with boot menu through (virtual) serial console.

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 08:19, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 07:28, Andreas Gustafsson wrote: > > > > Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > I can see all the boot messages and I can log in through the serial > > > console, but I can't

Re: Cannot interact with boot menu through (virtual) serial console.

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 07:28, Andreas Gustafsson wrote: > > Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > I can see all the boot messages and I can log in through the serial > > console, but I can't select any options at the boot menu. > > There is a qemu bug report for this: > > h

Cannot interact with boot menu through (virtual) serial console.

=view=5409 -- Ottavio Caruso

postinstall fixes failed: gid

-- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Cannot boot NetBSD under qemu-kvm

=virtio" or remove the machine type altogether. Failing that, try asking on irc (OFTC #qemu). -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Cannot boot NetBSD under qemu-kvm

irtio-net-pci,ipv6=off -nographic It is possible that you have to tweak the "M q35" parameter, if you moved from a previous version of qemu. "qemu-system-x86_64 -M help" will give you all the possible values. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: pkgsrc binary packages security with pkgin

On 31/01/2020 12:05, Leonardo Taccari wrote: Ottavio Caruso writes: [...] I believe there's an internal pkgsrc security mailing list to which users have no access (I could be wrong), so I don't really know how this auditing really works. One can always "pkg_admin fetch-pkg-vulnerabil

Re: pkgsrc binary packages security with pkgin

be wrong), so I don't really know how this auditing really works. One can always "pkg_admin fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities && pkg_admin audit". -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: NetBSD and User Private Groups (Unique Groups)

On 29/01/2020 13:20, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:29:54AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On 29/01/2020 10:02, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 09:36:02AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi, I'm using 9.0_RC1, so I don't know if this is a functionality that was used

Re: NetBSD and User Private Groups (Unique Groups)

On 29/01/2020 11:41, Martin Husemann wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:29:54AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On a multi user system, all files are created readable by the group (umask 022). If we are all in the same group, anybody can read my newly created files (imagine a local password file

Re: NetBSD and User Private Groups (Unique Groups)

On 29/01/2020 10:02, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 09:36:02AM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi, I'm using 9.0_RC1, so I don't know if this is a functionality that was used in the past and then dropped or will be introduced in the future. At one point in time, probably around 10

NetBSD and User Private Groups (Unique Groups)

ate-groups [2] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?adduser(8) -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Local repo

to pkgs built from pkgsrc-current. There are occasional hiccups. This question (and my answer) is probably more suited to pkgscr-users. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: How do you set $PS1 on /bin/ksh

Op 24/01/2020 om 18:56 schreef Ottavio Caruso: On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 16:34, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: On 24.01.2020 14:19, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi, [hoping my post doesn't arrive duplicated or triplicated] How do you set the prompt in ksh? The man page doesn't seem to help. OpenBSD ksh has

Re: pkgsrc binary packages security with pkgin

  Johnny Incidentally, I wonder if OpenBSD's privsep  [1] [2] could be a possible welcome addition to pkgsrc. [1] https://man.openbsd.org/bsd.port.mk#PORTS_PRIVSEP [2] https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-01-11-privsep.html -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: How do you set $PS1 on /bin/ksh

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 16:34, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > > On 24.01.2020 14:19, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > Hi, > > > > [hoping my post doesn't arrive duplicated or triplicated] > > > > How do you set the prompt in ksh? The man page doesn't seem to help. >

Re: How do you set $PS1 on /bin/ksh

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 18:57, Robert Elz wrote: > > There are a zillion different things called ksh, I'm not > sure which version OpenBSD have as ksh Strangely enough, both OSes report exactly the same version: KSH_VERSION='@(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2' -- Ottavio Caruso

How do you set $PS1 on /bin/ksh

\h:\w\$ " is not expanded. Thanks -- Ottavio Caruso

[Solved] Unbootable system, was: How can I get to display the boot menu in serial console?

On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 09:23, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 22:42, Jason Mitchell wrote: > > > > > The boot blocks determine where the boot menu is displayed. The installboot > > command lets you write new boot blocks which will send the messa

Unbootable system, was: How can I get to display the boot menu in serial console?

th installboot and now I've messed up my installation and the system is unbootable. Any chance I can recover it booting from the cd image? -- Ottavio Caruso

How can I get to display the boot menu in serial console?

see the FreeBSD boot menu. Thanks -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: repo missing package

all those build failed: http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/reports/2019Q4/NetBSD-8.0-x86_64/20191229.1155/meta/report.html -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Why are all pkg* commands in man section 1?

On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 20:19, wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > I wonder why they are all in section 1 of the manual pages and not in > > section 8, where one would expect them to be. > > I think it is a mistake. I thought there was a P

Why are all pkg* commands in man section 1?

, where one would expect them to be. Thanks -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: About using NetBSD as a guest, why, how etc.

On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 09:17, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 07:24, Mayuresh wrote: > > > > Considering this because I got a new hardware on which a few things don't > > work on NetBSD (1. wifi: can live with using mobile with tethering; 2. > > to

Re: About using NetBSD as a guest, why, how etc.

m-x86_64 -drive file=/home/oc/VM/img/netbsd.image,index=0,media=disk -m 400M -cpu host -enable-kvm -smp $(nproc) -net user,hostfwd=tcp::-:22 -net nic -nographic Then I switch between stdio and monitor using CTRL-A C. If I want to ssh in, I just: $ ssh 127.0.0.1 -p -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: 9.0_RC1 & HEAD

ut do not contain binary sets. They are intended for network installs or system repair. boot.iso is for VGA console installation, and boot-com.iso is for installation over serial console (com0, 9600 baud)." -- Ottavio Caruso

[XPOST]: Does NetBSD support tp_smapi or similar?

Originally posted on teck-kern. I hope somebody will pick it up here. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ottavio Caruso To: tech-k...@netbsd.org References: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi and: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tp_smapi I have a Thinkpad Edge 130 and I

Re: Can I install NetBSD on the same usb installation disk?

422 used, 3523721 free (1 frags, 440465 blocks, 0.0% > fragmentation) > ~sysbuild/release/images # mount /dev/sd0a /mnt/a test the > new partition size > ~sysbuild/release/images df -k /mnt/a > Filesystem1K-blocks Used Avail %Cap Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 7738286 6908446660528 9% /mnt/a< > looks good > > Boot from this stick was also tested OK. > > Obviously you can use the same technique to extend your 'a' slice and > extend and|or relocate your 'b' > swap slice on a live stick/disk. Also if you wanted, instead of > increasing the NetBSD primary > partition with fdisk at the beginning, you could create an MS-DOS > partition, format it FAT32 and use > it for other stuff. > > This was lifted some times ago from the NetBSD Raspberry PI wiki. > > Chavdar Ivanov > Thanks Chavdar! A lot of food for thought! -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: Can I install NetBSD on the same usb installation disk?

vdar, if you don't mind, could you give me a breakdown of these commands? I haven't used NetBSD fdisk in a while. -- Ottavio Caruso

Can I install NetBSD on the same usb installation disk?

. Any help appreciated. -- Ottavio Caruso

Re: (tutorial) How to use PulseAudio on NetBSD

On 18 November 2015 at 16:04, Adrien Fernandes wrote: > First of all, you need hal and dbus to be started. Hal is no longer needed for pulseaudio > # /etc/rc.d/hal onestart as above > Once this is done, let's set up PulseAudio. > > Now, the last part of this

Re: xdm prevents me from shutting the system down clean

On 7 November 2015 at 22:21, Nick Hudson <sk...@netbsd.org> wrote: > On 11/04/15 14:53, Ottavio Caruso wrote: >> >> On 4 November 2015 at 10:55, Paul Goyette <p...@vps1.whooppee.com> wrote: >>> >>> I used to get this, too. But the problem seems to have

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