Re: Clean Microsoft FROM NETBSD

2024-05-18 Thread Liam Proven
ven try. But you need to do this within Windows itself. Try from Linux or whatever and you'll almost certainly destroy your Windows install. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamp

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-05-09 Thread Liam Proven
cle above. https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/new_type_of_computer/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

Re: "Building products with NetBSD"

2024-05-03 Thread Liam Proven
w.netbsd.org/~sborrill/RISCBSD.pdf I will have a look ASAP. > And related to your recent article about RISC OS on the RPi, I must > finally get round to open-sourcing this: > http://www.melidi.co.uk/ :-) You should. It is, sadly, a shrinking community... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://abou

"Building products with NetBSD"

2024-05-03 Thread Liam Proven
A design study I just found while researching some Acorn stuff. https://www.bsdcan.org/2009/schedule/attachments/77_BuildingProductsWithNetBSDthin-clients-Stephen-Borrill.pdf >From 2009. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: l

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-05-02 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 1 May 2024 at 12:31, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Liam Proven writes: > > > Step 1: a binary interoperability standard, so apps from any BSD can > > execute on any other BSD (on the same CPU architecture, obviously.) > > This is not so much about the binaries a

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-05-01 Thread Liam Proven
he case of NetBSD however you still test > a big part of the install - except partitioning. You do all steps! That's the job. As the earlier flame in this thread shows, some people cannot handle criticism of things they are accustomed to. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven E

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-19 Thread Liam Proven
ice, and try the OS out without installing it at all. Several Linux distros do this, especially the enterprise ones which do not expect to run on bare metal. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Linked

Re: Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 14:21, Benny Siegert wrote: > > Wonderful article, thanks for sharing! :D Oh thank you! Thank you too for your help in inspiring it – and putting me in touch with Martin. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gT

Please forgive a blatant plug: I reviewed v10 for the Reg

2024-04-18 Thread Liam Proven
! -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053

Re: Keyboards

2024-01-19 Thread Liam Proven
e: https://deskthority.net/wiki/IBM_Enhanced_Keyboard > Do these still exist?? Yes. And there are modern replicas: https://www.clickykeyboards.com/ https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/SFNT > Do they last longer then the current keyboards? One of mine is 33 and works perfectly. -- Liam Proven ~

Re: Is it possible to install NetBSD from Ventoy?

2023-12-14 Thread Liam Proven
s up tmpfs for all writable parts). You can choose whether to copy the ISO to a RAMdisk and boot from that, if you have enough RAM and want to be able to remove the key. > I don't see how that could work outside of an emulator. It does, very well, and it works equally well on BIOS and UEFI

Re: Is it possible to install NetBSD from Ventoy?

2023-12-14 Thread Liam Proven
Ah, shame. I will have to try to find a small key to dedicate to this, then. That's a significant nuisance. :-( FWIW it is not my first exposure to NetBSD. I wrote this last year: https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/10/netbsd_93/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro.

Re: Is it possible to install NetBSD from Ventoy?

2023-12-14 Thread Liam Proven
; I looked at the WEB page Why the block caps? It's not an acronym or initialism -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ Wha

Is it possible to install NetBSD from Ventoy?

2023-12-13 Thread Liam Proven
I use this excellent multiboot tool instead of writing USB sticks. It saves me hours. https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html NetBSD 9.3 and 10 are both throwing errors saying they can't locate /boot. Is it just me or my machine? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro