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- From: feyrer@rfhs0003.fh.uni-regensburg.de (Hubert Feyrer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
- Subject: Re: Few questions about NetBSD
- Followup-To: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 13:34:12 GMT
- Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany
- Message-ID: <4f7lck$4eo@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
- References: <1747.6610T551T2688@stack.urc.tue.nl>
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- E. Durmin (eka@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:
- > - Is it possible to boot NetBSD with a normal NTSC/PAL screen?
- > When I use 'loadbsd netbsd' I get an interlaced screen :(
-
- Hm, i guess you have to binpatch "some" symbol in the kernel... dunno which.
-
- What i do is have a 'iteconfig' in my /etc/rc.local, that resets the resolution
- when booting's done. (This has the drawback that it will clear your screen,
- though, and you won't be able to see the bootmessages!).
-
-
- > - On Linux it is possible to use virtual consoles... is it also possible on
- > NetBSD?
-
- Nope, not per default. Use "window" or "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.
-
- Heh, screwy Unix account that has a tcsh set up as csh. Get & use 'tcsh',
- it does what you want.
-
- > - 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?
- > Does 'swapon -a' turns on the swap partition or is NetBSD automatically
- > turning on the swap-partition?
-
- AFAIK, NetBSD uses your swap-partition per default, you don't have to care.
-
-
- > I know that I don't have much memory (only 4 Mb), but on Linux I can
- > execute top more than once...
-
- This should be possible with NetBSD as well.
-
-
- > - How can I know if NetBSD is using the swap-partition and how much memory
- > is left?
-
- Eh, i guess the problem you have is that you have NetBSD 1.1 and a old top, which
- just puked on me with an 'out of memory' error. Gotta make one for 1.1...
-
-
- Hubert
-