NetBSD/amiga FAQ

List of Frequently Asked Questions and Answers for NetBSD/amiga

April 11th, 1996

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 About this document
    • 1.1.1 History
    • 1.1.2 Copyright
    • 1.1.3 Distribution
  • 1.2 Introduction to the FAQ
• 2 What is NetBSD?
  • 2.1 The name of the game
  • 2.2 Who is working on the port?
• 3 What do I need to run NetBSD/amiga
  • 3.1 Which CPU is needed?
  • 3.2 How much memory do I need?
    • 3.2.1 Non contiguous memory
  • 3.3 How much diskspace do I need?
  • 3.4 What other hardware requirements are there?
  • 3.5 What hardware is supported by NetBSD/amiga V1.1, anyways?
  • 3.6 Things currently not supported by NetBSD/amiga
• 4 Where can I find more information on NetBSD?
  • 4.1 UseNet News
  • 4.2 Anonymous FTP
  • 4.3 World Wide Web
  • 4.4 Internet Relay Chat
  • 4.5 Electronic Mailing Lists
  • 4.6 Useful books
    • 4.6.1 Basic System Administration
    • 4.6.2 Advanced System Administration
    • 4.6.3 Programming under Unix
    • 4.6.4 Introductions to Unix Internals
• 5 Where to get sources?
  • 5.1 Release
  • 5.2 NetBSD-current with tar-balls
  • 5.3 NetBSD-current with SUP
• 6 How do I build a kernel myself?
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Getting the kernel source
  • 6.3 Configuring the kernel
  • 6.4 Compiling your kernel
  • 6.5 Installing your kernel
• 7 NetBSD - Linux - Amix - Minix
• 8 Frequently Asked Questions and their answers
  • 8.1 Installing a new system
    • 8.1.1 How do I get NetBSD?
    • 8.1.2 How do I install NetBSD?
    • 8.1.3 How can I autoboot into MultiUser mode
    • 8.1.4 NetBSD always asks me for a root device
    • 8.1.5 Where can I find ixemul.library version >= 39.46
    • 8.1.6 NetBSD hangs while booting into MultiUser mode
    • 8.1.7 I keep getting cksum errors when I try to install!
    • 8.1.8 Which distribution should I use?
    • 8.1.9 Which distributions are available outside the Internet?
    • 8.1.10 Does NetBSD run with the PROTO-Chip?
    • 8.1.11 My A2000 is recognized as A1200
  • 8.2 Hardware, drivers and binpatching
    • 8.2.1 How do I get a serial terminal to work correctly?
    • 8.2.2 Does NetBSD work with the Retina video card?
    • 8.2.3 How do I use binpatch?
      • 8.2.3.1 Introduction
      • 8.2.3.2 Patching the kernel
      • 8.2.3.3 Other binpatch options
      • 8.2.3.4 List of all binpatchable symbols
    • 8.2.4 Tapedrive problems
      • 8.2.4.1 Problem 1
      • 8.2.4.2 Problem 2
    • 8.2.5 Reading Sun tape cartridges
      • 8.2.5.1 But the Sun has an Archive Viper drive
    • 8.2.6 How to deal with silo-overflows?
    • 8.2.7 How can I run X on the A2410 TIGA board?
  • 8.3 Teething troubles
    • 8.3.1 Why can't I su to root?
    • 8.3.2 What packages can I install to enhance NetBSD?
      • 8.3.2.1 What about X-Windows?
      • 8.3.2.2 And networking?
    • 8.3.3 Can I access AmigaOS files from NetBSD?
    • 8.3.4 Can I access NetBSD files from AmigaOS?
    • 8.3.5 How do I create device files?
    • 8.3.6 How do I create accounts and change user information?
      • 8.3.6.1 Introduction
      • 8.3.6.2 Adding a new user
      • 8.3.6.3 But - isn't there an adduser-command?
    • 8.3.7 How can I reboot straight into NetBSD?
    • 8.3.8 Why doesn't the ps command work?
    • 8.3.9 Is there a debugger for NetBSD?
    • 8.3.10 How do I report bugs?
    • 8.3.11 How do I get a Meta-Key for Emacs?
    • 8.3.12 My keymap is all wrong!
      • 8.3.12.1 Fixing the console's keymap
      • 8.3.12.2 Fixing the keymap under X
    • 8.3.13 Xcl reports "Cannot open screen"
    • 8.3.14 Where do I get Motif? XView? OpenGL?
      • 8.3.14.1 Motif
      • 8.3.14.2 XView
      • 8.3.14.3 OpenGL
    • 8.3.15 What's all this stuff about binary emulation?
    • 8.3.16 How can I boot NetBSD without keeping an AmigaOS partition?
    • 8.3.17 Where can I find an archive of the mailing lists?

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