/var on tmpfs

2018-11-15 Thread Don NetBSD
I've a box with a DoM. I'd like to mount / as ro and create a tmpfs for /var (and /tmp). I don't think anything else NEEDS to be rw (the infrequent changes to /etc can be made by unlocking / to make those changes). I imagine I can just make a tarball of a skeletal /var and unpack this over /var

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-15 Thread Don NetBSD
On 11/15/2018 3:46 AM, Sad Clouds wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:00:06 -0700 Don NetBSD wrote: I've rescued a Netra T5220 (haven't attached a console, yet). 2. Solaris 11.3 is pretty good and has many features not available in NetBSD, such as LDOMs, Zones, ZFS, good multithreading in kernel.

Re: apm command netbsd 8

2018-11-15 Thread maya
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 07:22:04AM -0600, Michael Jensen wrote: > > Has the old apm command been removed in NetBSD 8? If not what do I need to > get it back. Also the apm api is needed for asbatt in pkgsrc can this be > made to work with newer versions? envstat gives battery information for ACPI

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-15 Thread Sad Clouds
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:00:06 -0700 Don NetBSD wrote: > I've rescued a Netra T5220 (haven't attached a console, yet). > > I'm soliciting comments as to whether I should leave/install > Slowaris on it or NetBSD. I think the Slowaris option gives > me more "out-of-the-box" functionality (without h

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-15 Thread Julien Savard
Unfortunately, as of 5 Nov 2017 ( http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2017/11/05/msg002700.html ) and according to the official netbsd wiki page ( http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/sparc64/ ), netbsd does not support sun4v architecture yet... it does seems however somebody at netbsd is trying to m