Problems installing onto computer with ld0 as boot drive

2018-07-13 Thread jmitchel
Hello, I'm trying to install NetBSD-8 Beta onto a Liva Mini-PC using a USB drive. Here's a link in case anyone's interested in what a Liva mini-pc is:

Re: Problems installing onto computer with ld0 as boot drive

2018-07-13 Thread jmitchel
Sorry, brain fade. I meant NetBSD-8.0 rc1. I just verified that that was what I imaged. Apologies. On 2018-07-13 15:21, jmitchel wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install NetBSD-8 Beta onto a Liva Mini-PC using a USB drive. Here's a link in case anyone's interested in what a Liva mini-pc is:

Re: Gah... How usable is www/firefox on NetBSD?

2018-07-13 Thread David Brownlee
On 12 July 2018 at 15:43, John D. Baker wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2018, John D. Baker wrote: > >> I use firefox52 (so I can have working gtk2 instead of broken gtk3) with >> little problem on NetBSD/amd64-8.0_RC1. >> >> It only occasionally dumps core and quits, usually only after some >> web site

FQDNs for netbooted hosts via DHCP?

2018-07-13 Thread John D. Baker
I have historically used dhcpd.conf "host" entries like: option domain-name "example.com"; option domain-name-servers M.N.O.P, W.X.Y.Z; host foo { hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx; fixed-address A.B.C.D; option next-server P.Q.R.S; option root-path "/path/to/foo"; }

Re: booting from gpt/raid?

2018-07-13 Thread Hauke Fath
On 07/11/18 21:58, MLH wrote: Unfortunately, gpt-on-raid1-on-gpt is not bootable, as opposed to disklabel-on-RAID1-on-disklabel (which has size limitations). The mbr boot code is able to account for disklabel-on-raid1, but not for gpt-on-raid1, see e.g. install/44982. > I'm not quite sure I

Running NetBSD as VirtualBox VM using GPT slices

2018-07-13 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
Hi, The following probably won't be of much use, but perhaps is worth mentioning. I have an HP laptop with a main nvme disk running Windows 10 and VirtualBox. There is also a GPT-partitioned second 750GB disk, holding some data plus several EFI-booting systems, one of which is NetBSD-current. I