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WTF-Moment while trying to install FreeBSD 9.0

June 4, 2012 / posted in error, FreeBSD, install, laptop, mysteries, NetBSD, Notebook, Operating System / No Comments

Yesterday, I tried to install FreeBSD 9.0 on an old Laptop running an Athlon XP-M CPU. NetBSD did install on it, but had a few issues, and I wanted to see how FreeBSD would fare on it and compare the dmesg-outputs in order to solve NetBSD’s issues, if possible. I downloaded the ISO from freebsd.org, [...]

monit – curse and blessing combined

April 30, 2012 / posted in Configuration, monitoring, NetBSD, pkgsrc, segmentation fault / No Comments

Last week, I installed monit from pkgsrc on two of my netbsd-machines. Monit is a powerful monitoring tool – at least it is, once you got it up and running successfully. In general, it’s configuration is quite simple, the syntax very easy to understand – on the first glance. That, combined with it’s great capabilities of [...]

Distributed Compilation, Part II

February 3, 2011 / posted in BSD, ccache, compilation, computer, Configuration, cross-compilation, cross-platform, distributed compilation, experiments, heterogeneous, NetBSD, Network, pkgsrc, pump, server, shellscript, SPARC, SPARC64, Sun, UltraSPARC / 2 Comments

As I wrote in my previous Post, , the so far gained speed up of compilation times was significant, but it still took long. The most obvious solution was to add more hosts to the list, but which hosts should that be? The Ultra-5 of course not, and all other Sun computers were slower and [...]

Distributed Compilation, Part I

February 2, 2011 / posted in BSD, ccache, compilation, computer, Configuration, distributed compilation, experiments, NetBSD, Network, pkgsrc, pump, server, shellscript, SPARC, SPARC64, Sun, UltraSPARC / 2 Comments

Introduction I have several old Sun machines, which are all still working fine, but partly lack performance of modern computers and/or RAM. I usually install NetBSD on my computers, especially on those Sun-boxes. The advantage is that every machine has the same “look and feel”, I know exactly what to do, etc. The downside is [...]

NetBSD 5.1 has been released!

November 19, 2010 / posted in BSD, NetBSD, Opensource, Operating System, release / No Comments

After four release candidates and a lot of hard work, NetBSD 5.1, the first feature-update of the NetBSD 5 Branch, has finally been released on November 19, 2010. It includes security and bug fixes, as well as improved hardware support and new features. Most Important Changes in 5.1 The most imporatant changes between 5.0 and [...]

Planned outage of mail.netbsd.org on Sunday Nov 7th 2010

November 5, 2010 / posted in computer, NetBSD, outage, server, update, upgrade / No Comments

Today, I received an announcement by e-mail that the server mail.netbsd.org will be unavailable due maintenance and upgrade on Sunday, Nov 7th 2010, starting at 09:00 hours UTC. Just in case, anyone wonders…

pkgsrc-Mysteries – unraveled – update

November 3, 2010 / posted in BSD, experiments, mysteries, NetBSD, Opensource, packages, pkgsrc / No Comments

I have to correct my on how $PATH is now set in my /etc/shrc: In the post, i wrote that my $PATH is set this way: 1 2 3 4 5 PATH=/usr/local/scripts:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/local/bin if [ "${uid}" -eq 0 ]; then   PATH=/usr/local/sscripts:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:${PATH} fi export PATH PATH=/usr/local/scripts:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R7/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/local/bin if [ "${uid}" -eq 0 ]; then PATH=/usr/local/sscripts:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:${PATH} fi export [...]

pkgsrc-Mysteries – unraveled

November 2, 2010 / posted in BSD, Compaq, DL360, experiments, i386, mysteries, NetBSD, Opensource, packages, pkgsrc / No Comments

As I wrote , I encountered a weird mystery concerning three pkgsrc-packages, which did compile on each and every NetBSD-machine I could find, but on . We looked into the problem for days, but never found a clue. Then, this afternoon, the solution popped up in a totally different context. The Mistery Unravels During the [...]

pkgsrc-Mysteries

November 2, 2010 / posted in Atom, BSD, Compaq, DL360, experiments, i386, mysteries, NetBSD, packages, pkgsrc, update, upgrade / No Comments

pkgsrc is the package-system native to NetBSD. It is a great system that lets you decide whether you like to install from officially pre-built binary packages, or from source by compiling each package directly. You can even mix binary installs with your own builds, the pkgsrc-system is capable of handling this. Depending on machine-speed, I [...]

pkgsrc/2010Q3: binary packages available for i386 and amd64

October 28, 2010 / posted in amd64, binary, BSD, i386, NetBSD, packages, pkgsrc / No Comments

I just received word via email that binary packages of pkgsrc/2010Q3 are available for the architectures i386 and amd64, NetBSD 4.0.1 and NetBSD 5.0.2 have been made available: NetBSD/i386 4.0.1: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/4.0.1_2010Q3/ NetBSD/amd64 4.0.1: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/4.0.1_2010Q3/ NetBSD/i386 5.0.2: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/5.0.2_2010Q3/ NetBSD/amd64 5.0.2: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/5.0.2_2010Q3/

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