Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @09:31PM
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Ah, sysinst. I do not use it. This explains the enabling of programs in the configuration. Apologies I should have guessed that's where these settings were coming from.
I usually installboot and disklabel manually, download and extract sets manually, use makefs or mdsetimage and vnconfig to create/edit images.
Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z
by ruthmarx on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @11:40AM
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> I usually installboot and disklabel manually, download and extract sets manually,
Why do things a harder way when there is no discernible benefit?
Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @01:20PM
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The "discernable benefit" for me is 1. learning how things work and 2. flexibility.
Sometimes it's on, see https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-10/src/etc/...
> By default only one tty is enabled
Ah, but the rest is getting enabled by the installer, see https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/netbsd-10/usr.sbin/sysins...
> NetBSD might have some "bloatware" but _the user must enable it_ first
> Everything is off by default. That is one of the things that makes NetBSD great IMHO
I mean, it gets pretty close to that, and I don't even mind syslogd and powerd, but I'm confused why they enable stuff like postfix, inetd and makemandb without asking. Especially makemandb is pretty intensive on slow machines.
> "I was able to fix it by adding usermod disable wss to the bootloader line."
> Does he mean userconf
Whoopsie, that's on me, good catch!