Re: updating direct from 5 to 9?

2022-08-21 Thread tlaronde
Le Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 07:55:45AM -0400, Greg Troxel a écrit : > > Christopher Pinnock writes: > > > There is a change of file system superblock format between 7 and 8 > > iirc which may need some attention. > > Do you mean what Martin just pointed out? I have definitely done > upgrades 5->6

Re: updating direct from 5 to 9?

2022-08-22 Thread tlaronde
Le Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 09:59:28PM +0700, Robert Elz a écrit : > Date:Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:19:03 +0200 > From:Martin Husemann > Message-ID: <20220822141903.ga13...@mail.duskware.de> > > > | Booting a 9.3 install CD and digging around a bit I found the 9.3 kernel >

Re: updating direct from 5 to 9?

2022-08-22 Thread tlaronde
Le Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 06:45:14PM +0200, Martin Husemann a écrit : > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 05:16:19PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > On a fresh install, with a custom compiled 9.3 with the setting of > > DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR and perhaps DKWEDGE_METHOD_BDSLABEL also (I'm not > > sure), I wa

Re: [SUCCESS partial] Disabling framebuffer at boot time

2022-08-23 Thread tlaronde
Le Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:16:28PM +, RVP a écrit : > On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > Booting without framebuffer and without multiprocessor, it works and > > I have the dmesg from NetBSD (it can be downloaded here): > > > > http://downloads.kergis.com/misc/rpt_netbsd9.

Notes installing/booting/debugging NetBSD on OVH baremetal

2022-08-29 Thread tlaronde
I have put there: https://notes.kergis.com/netbsd_on_OVH_baremetal.html some extanded notes about installing, dual booting and "debugging" (the problem was solved before needing to dive deeper) a NetBSD on an OVH baremetal offer. There is something that could be interesting in other circonstance

Re: Low power server ideas

2022-09-02 Thread tlaronde
Le Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 07:38:19AM -0700, Andy Ruhl a écrit : > Hello all, > > I've been running a NetBSD server on i386 for about 20 odd years, I > should go back and check when I actually started it. I sort of > accidentally upgraded it to amd64 a while back but it worked. > > Anyways, it seems

Modifying/completing a NetBSD wiki page

2022-09-03 Thread tlaronde
I have installed recently NetBSD on a OVH bare metal server and used as first guide this wiki page: https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_install_netbsd_on_OVH/ Iain Hibbert, who wrote it, has suggested to complete it and I have extracted from my notes what seems to me the most relevant additi

Re: noob Question: How to format a floppy on a USB floppy disk drive (on RPi 4) ?

2022-11-16 Thread tlaronde
Le Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 04:04:05PM -0800, Michael Cheponis a écrit : >[...] > > I see other unexpected behavior; when I copy to identical files that are > exactly 1/2 of 1.4 MB long > # ll f1 f2 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 mac wheel 737280 Nov 15 02:53 f1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mac wheel 737280 Nov 15 02:54 f

Re: firefox resource hog

2023-01-07 Thread tlaronde
Le Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 01:17:56PM +0530, Mayuresh a écrit : > I find that firefox 105 or 107 are almost unusable on a laptop running > NetBSD 10.0 BETA. > > Following is a top snapshot: > > 1615 guest 850 3223M 414M poll/0 0:47 58.46% 54.35% firefox > 2344 guest 850 255

Re: firefox resource hog

2023-01-08 Thread tlaronde
Le Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 09:19:36AM +0530, Mayuresh a écrit : >[...] > Regarding alternatives: > > A lot of my browser usage (reading news, common web searches) is in > elinks. But I also use firefox' marionette interface heavily to automate > 100s of repetitive tasks. Have written many scripts fo

Re: firefox resource hog

2023-01-08 Thread tlaronde
Le Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 09:53:32PM +0530, Mayuresh a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 04:56:54PM +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > For this, I would use curl(1) (I do use it to automate downloading of > > pages when there are no capchas). > > How I do this is: > > 1. For some of the most si

Re: TeX Live 2013 pretest binaries [was: Texlive 2012 DVD won't support NetBSD]

2013-04-18 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 04:11:29PM +0200, Marc Baudoin wrote: > > Last year, TeX Live dropped NetBSD/i386 distribution in its main > system. As a long time (20+ years) user of both LaTeX and > NetBSD, the blow was harsh on me but I could survive for some > time with the TeX Live 2012 pretest bina

NetBSD and USB connected display

2013-05-28 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Since less motherboards come now with com serial external ports to allow serial console, I wonder if NetBSD supports a display connected via USB (to allow connecting a display and a keyboard via USB to a headless node to monitor a booting problem)? TIA -- Thierry Laronde

PPP over SSH: pppd sending eof

2013-05-28 Thread tlaronde
Hello, I'm setting a VPN "by hand" when needed by using PPP over SSH. It succeeded on different hosts till now, and with a new one I have systematically the connected to end (receiving the ssh request) sending an eof after the initial negociation. Here is an extract of ssh(1) logging: debug2: ch

ntp/ntpdate and NAT

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
Hello, If I understand correctly, the time offset are computed taking into account the time the ICMP messages spent going from a time server to the client requesting it. But does a NAT rewrite happening in between have an impact on this computation? since both ends are unaware of the masquerading

Re: cpp in base?

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:26:55PM +1000, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > quick question - should I be able to use /usr/bin/cpp -E without having > installed the compiler binary set? So far on this 5.1.2 host I've got > the base and etc sets installed and when trying to use cpp as a pre-processor > only,

Re: cpp in base?

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 10:07:03PM +1000, mjch wrote: > Wouldn't that make having /usr/bin/cpp in any set other than comp a little > pointless? > If it depends on the compiler, as it is perfectly allowed, yes. This only means that a cpp outside the comp set has to be standalone. But this does no

Re: ntp/ntpdate and NAT

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:20:21AM +, Michael van Elst wrote: > > NTP doesn't use ICMP but UDP and client and servers exchange time > information directly within the NTP protocol. The gateway is > nothing more than a router in the path that causes some delay, > with NAT or without. > OK. But

Re: ntp/ntpdate and NAT

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 03:13:10PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > > If your NAT device causes persistent enough packet handling delays in the > order of 2 seconds (or enough to make NTP erroneously drift that far), > you have a serious problem. >[...] > What timecounter source did your machine p

Re: ntp/ntpdate and NAT

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:46:46PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Basically, NTP (ntpd and ntpdate) assume that the mean of the outgoing > and incoming local timestamps (in the local machine's time) is the same > time as the mean of the remote machines incoming and outgoing timestamps > (in the rem

Atheros Ethernet product 0x1091

2013-06-05 Thread tlaronde
Hello, This ethernet device is embedded in a Gigabyte motherboard. The pcidb says: AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller It is neither recognized by age(4), alc(4), ale(4) or lii(4) (dealing with L1, L2 or other). Does anybody know if there is support for this in the planning,

UPS via USB, ups-nut and uhidev vs. ugen

2013-06-27 Thread tlaronde
Hello, I have found that at least apcupsd may be working with NetBSD if in the config file one explicitely allocates the USB port used by the UPS to ugen* (if not, uhidev* is taking all and this is not supported by the drivers). Since it seems that ups-nut supports perhaps more UPSes, has somebod

UDF and sector size

2013-10-11 Thread tlaronde
Hello, I use a NetBSD (5.1.2 on amd64) to serve files (via NFS or Samba) and to do backups. I have put a first backup internal to the server (via 2 disks) and I do an external backup via the network. But the appliance used for this "remote" backup has problems and I need to find another way. I w

Re: UDF and sector size

2013-10-12 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 05:14:51PM +0200, rudolf wrote: > tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > >Has anybody any info/experience about that, and about sharing UDF > >between NetBSD and others? > > I have a bad experience using UDF under NetBSD - PR kern/44751. There > are also other open PRs about UDF. Y

Re: UDF and sector size

2013-10-12 Thread tlaronde
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 06:35:50PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 05:14:51PM +0200, rudolf wrote: > > I have a bad experience using UDF under NetBSD - PR kern/44751. There > > are also other open PRs about UDF. YMMV. > > In -current, we have managed to integrate UDF into

fuse ntfs-3g on USB poor performances

2013-11-07 Thread tlaronde
Hello, I need to do a back-up of files served by an amd64 NetBSD node (5.2.0), and, in case of problem, this back-up has to be readable directly by Windows nodes. So I use external USB connected disks (USB 3.0; the server has USB 3.0 ports too), formatted as NTFS, and I use fuse/ntfs-3g. But th

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