Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-16 Thread Don NetBSD
On 11/16/2018 12:05 AM, Sad Clouds wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 22:10:26 -0700 Don NetBSD wrote: This may well be the killer. Someone appears to have flashed a custom OFW image -- which I'll have to rid the machine of before I can do ANYTHING with it. If someone put the latest firmware

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-16 Thread Sad Clouds
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 22:10:26 -0700 Don NetBSD wrote: > This may well be the killer. Someone appears to have flashed a > custom OFW image -- which I'll have to rid the machine of before I > can do ANYTHING with it. If someone put the latest firmware version there, then keep it. There is

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-16 Thread Sad Clouds
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:01:18 -0700 Don NetBSD wrote: > The banner says: > U-Boot 1.1.1 > > > custom Sun Microsystems U-Boot 1.3 > ^^ > > And, autoboots a Linux 2.4.22 kernel (which must reside on internal > FLASH as it boots even with the drives pulled!) > > I am hoping to make some time

Re: /var on tmpfs

2018-11-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Don NetBSD wrote: > I've a box with a DoM. I'd like to mount / as ro and create a > tmpfs for /var (and /tmp). I don't think anything else NEEDS to > be rw (the infrequent changes to /etc can be made by unlocking / > to make those changes). > > I imagine I can just make a

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-16 Thread Don NetBSD
On 11/16/2018 1:56 PM, Brett Lymn wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 01:22:19PM -0700, Don NetBSD wrote: Version 3.0.10.4 r61032 Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Warning: password is set to factory default. -> version SP firmware 3.0.10.4 SP firmware build

Re: /var on tmpfs

2018-11-16 Thread Don NetBSD
On 11/16/2018 12:35 PM, Rhialto wrote: I once made a little script to make a bootable ISO9660 live file system, given the distribution tarballs. It has to be able to live on a read-only medium, hence it uses a tmpfs for /var. For initializing it, it installs a script in /etc/rc.d. I basically

Re: /var on tmpfs

2018-11-16 Thread Rhialto
I once made a little script to make a bootable ISO9660 live file system, given the distribution tarballs. It has to be able to live on a read-only medium, hence it uses a tmpfs for /var. For initializing it, it installs a script in /etc/rc.d. I basically used trial and error; everything that

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-16 Thread Brett Lymn
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 01:22:19PM -0700, Don NetBSD wrote: > Version 3.0.10.4 r61032 > > Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. > > Warning: password is set to factory default. > > -> version > SP firmware 3.0.10.4 > SP firmware build number: 61032 > SP firmware

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-16 Thread Don NetBSD
On 11/16/2018 2:53 PM, Sad Clouds wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:22:19 -0700 Don NetBSD wrote: So, it seems like there are a boat load of prompts -- "u-boot>", "->", "ok" ... And, nothing that seems to summarize ALL of the pertinent environments in which you can be interacting with the box.

Re: /var on tmpfs

2018-11-16 Thread Staffan Thomén
Don NetBSD wrote: I've a box with a DoM. I'd like to mount / as ro and create a tmpfs for /var (and /tmp). I don't think anything else NEEDS to be rw (the infrequent changes to /etc can be made by unlocking / to make those changes). I imagine I can just make a tarball of a skeletal /var and

Re: /var on tmpfs

2018-11-16 Thread Don NetBSD
On 11/16/2018 11:12 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Don NetBSD wrote: I've a box with a DoM. I'd like to mount / as ro and create a tmpfs for /var (and /tmp). I don't think anything else NEEDS to be rw (the infrequent changes to /etc can be made by unlocking / to make those

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-16 Thread Don NetBSD
On 11/16/2018 1:27 AM, Sad Clouds wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:01:18 -0700 Don NetBSD wrote: [probably best to take this off list?] I am hoping to make some time to play with this over the weekend (or, over the holiday). Right now, its just "in the way" :-/ Not sure about your case

Re: apm command netbsd 8

2018-11-16 Thread Michael Jensen
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, m...@netbsd.org wrote: Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 05:02:05 + From: m...@netbsd.org To: Michael Jensen Cc: netbsd-users@NetBSD.org Subject: Re: apm command netbsd 8 On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 07:22:04AM -0600, Michael Jensen wrote: Has the old apm command been removed in

Re: /var on tmpfs

2018-11-16 Thread David Young
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:28:56PM -0700, Don NetBSD wrote: > I've a box with a DoM. I'd like to mount / as ro and create a > tmpfs for /var (and /tmp). I don't think anything else NEEDS to > be rw (the infrequent changes to /etc can be made by unlocking / > to make those changes). > > I