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- From: aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alex R.N. Wetmore)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: 386bsd questions
- Message-ID: <MeeK4CS00Vp801tSYg@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 17:38:22 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.MeeK4CS00Vp801tSYg
- Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 32
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- A few questions that I have:
-
- 1) With the network, it doesn't seem to start unless I run ifconfig
- manually. I have added the line:
- ifconfig ec0 inet 128.2.111.111 netmask 255.255.0.0
- in /etc/netstart, but my nameservers don't seem to work until i run the
- same command manually from a root login.
-
- 2) My com1: port locks up. There is something about a tty_ring.c
- replacment in the FAQ, but I couldn't find it. com2: works fine.
- 2b) is there support for com3: and com4:?
-
- 3) is there a ansi driver for the console with better emulation. For
- now I have been using a z29 and a pc on com ports, but with one of the
- out and two people who use the machine (my roommate and i), it would be
- nice to have two working terminals. The driver doesn't seem to emulate
- a vt100 or ansi very well though, and is missing a lot of attributes
- (like rev-video).
-
- 4) I have 6 megs unpartitioned on my hard drive. Is there a way to add
- this as swap space. I assume I have to disklabel and newfs it, but I am
- not sure how to access it from bsd? Do I make a partition with dos
- fdisk or norton and work from there?
-
- 5) The distributed kernel is about 400k or so. After compiling the
- default kernel, I had a kernel of 460k or so. What has been added?
- Mostly just courious.
-
- otherwise, thanks to those who have gotten this project out of the door.
- Everything is running great!
-
- alex
-