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- From: "Markus Illenseer" <markus@tiger.teuto.de>
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 21:00:51 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Few questions about NetBSD
- Message-ID: <68246225@tiger.teuto.de>
- Organization: The plains of passage
-
- E. Durmin wrote:
- > I have a few questions:
- > - Is it possible to boot NetBSD with a normal NTSC/PAL screen?
- > When I use 'loadbsd netbsd' I get an interlaced screen :(
-
- try -A option for AGA.
-
- > - On Linux it is possible to use virtual consoles... is it also
- > possible on NetBSD?
-
- Not yet. Use "screen".
-
- > - On my Unix-account on the university I use 'csh' as my default
- > shell.
- > I did this too on NetBSD, but when I press the cursorkeys I just
- > get weird characters. Usually it is possible to "go back to previous
- > commands" when pressing these keys.
-
- Try: set -O. And then you might want to look at the key-bindings, which
- of course differ from your university machine.
-
- > - I've heard that NetBSD uses a just little bit more memory than
- > Linux...
- > I've downloaded top (top-3.3) and tried to start top.
- > It doesn't start... it says that there was no memory left...
- > Do I really have no memory left or is the swap partition not in
- > use?
-
- Which top did you download?
-
- > Does 'swapon -a' turns on the swap partition or is NetBSD
- > automatically turning on the swap-partition?
-
- Swap function is started from within the time you mount the root partition.
-
- > I know that I don't have much memory (only 4 Mb), but on Linux I
- > can execute top more than once...
-
- And you can do that on NetBSD, too.
-
- > - How can I know if NetBSD is using the swap-partition and how much
- > memory is left?
-
- systat or pstat
-
- --
- Markus Illenseer
-