NetBSD is a Unix-like operating system. It is very portable and runs on multiple architectures such as Amiga, Atari, HP300, Mac, Sun3, Sparc, PC, VAX, Mips, Alpha, ... It is developed by people all around the world on the Internet, therefore it's called NetBSD. It has all the features you would expect in a modern Unix, including true (preemtive) multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables and TCP/IP networking.

This chapter contains information on how to get more information on NetBSD. There are several ways to get the desired information. Choose the one which uses the least resources. To do this, simply use the first method described here which is appropriate for you. comp.unix.amiga : Discussions, Questions and anwers about any on Amiga (NetBSD, Linux, Amix, AmiNIX, Minix, etc.). comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce: NetBSD-related announcements, all ports. Dave Burgess (burgess@s069.infonet.

There's a file called 'INSTALL' that comes for each architecture that's supported by a NetBSD release, and which describes the installation procedure in great detail. For the 1.1-release, this document can be found in the following places: Please consult this file for further instructions! See section 4.2 Anonymous FTP, for a list of mirrors of the above server. The 'loadbsd' program has a number of options to control the boot process - type 'loadbsd -?' to see all the options.

There have been many answers to this question, but I believe it has been best summed up in some posts to the mailing list: Drew Vogel Andy R Miles Nordin

You can find NetBSD/dreamcast snapshots at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/dreamcast/snapshot/. ftp://releng.NetBSD.org claims to have daily snapshots, but they sometimes miss days. :-) As the Dreamcast port is binary compatible to other sh-based ports, you can also use snapshots from these projects, such as the NetBSD/hpcsh port, located at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/hpcsh/snapshot/. This doesn't only apply to snapshots of the base system, but also of precompiled binary packages.

To build NetBSD/dreamcast under Windows will take a functional Cygwin installation, a working sh4 cross-compiler, the NetBSD code and a great deal of patience. More detail will hopefully be made available in the not too distant future.

This means that NetBSD has been pre-installed using the latest stable version (NetBSD 3.0) All the standard sets except the X sets are installed and pkgsrc is configured to add additional software.

Yes. Mark Andres (mark@giganet.net) has an excellent HowTo describing how he set up Japanese support on his system: No. This is probably not a good idea. You should get the copy of MODE32 which works with your system. It is recommended that you use the version called MODE32 (7.5), since earlier versions may not work well with System 7.1 or later. After installing MODE32, be sure to set your machine to 32-bit addressing mode in the Memory control panel.

If your OS supports the "wi" driver, then our 802.11b Senao / EnGenius cards will work. The card ID for the 2511 series is "intersil" The 3054 / 5004 / 5354 / 8602 cards all have Atheros chipsets. Check your favorite driver (madwifi, ath, wi) to see if this chipset is supported under the BSD flavor of your choice.

I want to do one of the following things: * add a device not in the distributed kernel (third com port, additional disk or tape, line printer driver, etc). * use a patch from the net or the patchkit to fix a kernel bug. * add another swap device. * recompile the kernel to remove extraneous devices so that it takes up less space. * configure more pseudo-terminals to allow for more xterms or network logins.

Can I use 8K packets for NFS? When I try, I have all kinds of problems. Specifically, I get 'ring buffer overflows' or the performance is real bad.

Sure. Check out the cross-compiling howto for MacBSD for an example. All of the NetBSD ports should be capable of doing 'pretty much' the same thing. Probably not. When the system starts, the kernel malloc pool is not backed by real memory. As these pages are allocated, real memory is assigned to them, increasing your memory usage. As these pages are released, they are returned to the malloc pool, but the memory is never returned to the system.

Relink /etc/localtime. This will correct the difference from GMT (or its trendy equivelant) to your local timezone. In addition, the kernel needs to be modified to take the clock time in your CMOS into account. Since most folks that run DOS prefer to have their clocks set to local time, the timezone hack was introduced to allow the kernel to adjust the CMOS clock time to GMT. Once GMT has been computed, the /etc/localtime file can be referenced to determine the corrected local time.

There is a set of books produced by O'Reilly and associates that describe in some detail the 4.4 BSD system. The six volume set includes a book on system administration which directly pertains to the operation and management of NetBSD and FreeBSD. Also see the Section 1 for a good list of the books that folks use for the system. There is also a good list of books (specifically about writing device drivers) in the 'pcvt' distributions in NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.

The "ccd" device (in -current) provides the capability to span a file system across multiple hard drive partitions. Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> has been working on it; if you try it and have problems, here are the debug instructions: Considering that the error comes froom the ioctl (rather than the open) I'm tempted to say it comes from either the vn_open() or subsequent VOP_*() operations on the components.

Since NetBSD is basically a flavour of Unix, more or less anything written for Unix can probably be ported (or already has been) to NetBSD; the list is enormous! See section 4 Where can I find more information on NetBSD? for details of mailing lists and newsgroups to subscribe to. If you're looking for precompiled binaries that you just have to install, have a look at '/pub/NetBSD-Amiga/contrib' on ftp.uni-regensburg.de and its mirrors .

The ADOS file system driver for NetBSD-Amiga can currently mount AmigaOS file systems read-only; support for writing to AmigaOS partitions may be added at a later date. For more information on how to mount AmigaOS filesystems, see the 'mount' and 'mount_ados' man pages. In any case, don't forget to add '-o ro' as the options to the mount command, as NetBSD's AmigaDOS-filesystem can't write to AmigaOS-files (yes, this is necessary since 1.0! :-).

Yes, by using the BFFS-Filesystem, but be sure to get version 1.4b0, which does not provide code for writing files to NetBSD-disks but can only read them. There's a V1.31b that can write to old (4.3) filesystems (e.g. from before NetBSD/amiga V1.0 or ones that were created with option '-O' to newfs), but that will nuke your 4.4-filesystems you newfs'ed under V1.1 or V1.0 without mercy. You've been warned! The file's available as 'bffs-1.4b0.gz' from '/pub/NetBSD-Amiga/tools' on ftp.

The 'reboot' command that's distributed with NetBSD/amiga performs a 'full' reboot through AmigaOS or whatever, but that may hang occasionally. NetBSD/amiga also provides the facility to just 'reload' (and restart) the kernel itself. To enable this, do the following (as root): mv /sbin/reboot /sbin/reboot.amiga echo "cp /netbsd /dev/reload" >/sbin/reboot chmod 755 /sbin/reboot You can now use the 'reboot' command to reboot into NetBSD, and 'reboot.amiga' to reboot into AmigaDOS.

For a read-only filesystem, use this (very old) DiscJuggler image. For a read/write filesystem, use Josh Tolbert's kernel (mirror). This will involve netbooting your system, and will give you a read/write filesystem.

See the instructions in "Cross-building NetBSD" page under NetBSD Documentation pages and "Crosscompiling NetBSD with build.sh" chapter in the NetBSD guide. Also, you may want to look at /usr/src/BUILDING for some good information on the build process in general, including cross-compiling.

Long answer: There are currently no official binary packages available on ftp.NetBSD.org in /pub/NetBSD/packages. Unofficial binaries are available though: Alex Kirk has built several hundred unofficial packages, which he has listed on his web site. Some of the links work, others do not; all of them are going to a machine with only 128K of upstream bandwidth, so don't be surprised if they're slow to download.

The X Window System is now included as part of the NetBSD distribution as of the NetBSD 1.2 release. You'll want the latest version, so you can pick up the files form the following directory: The xbase.tgz file is the base distribution, including the X binaries, shared libraries and some of the configuration files. The xcomp.tgz file includes those items needed for compiling X binaries such as the static libraries and header files. The xfont.tgz set includes the X11 fonts. The xcontrib.

This is really quite simple. All you need to do is to obtain a copy of the Booter utility (as of this writing 1.11.1 is the latest version, older versions may work, however) and a kernel file, preferably raw (i.e. not gzipped or tarred). The latest version of the Booter utility should be capable of handling gzipped kernel files. Both can usually be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.macbsd.com or ftp.netbsd.org. In the Booter, select Options->Booting.