On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:22:14 -0500 (CDT), emorfin@caracol.red.cinvestav.mx
wrote:
> 
> how can i mount my win (fat) partition? (mount -t ??? /dev/wd0?? 
> /mnt/wd0a)

NetBSD often generates a disklabel for FAT disks.  Here's mine:

#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  d:  1667232        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
1653)
  e:  1665153       63      MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*-
1651)

Mine is mounted with:
	mount -t msdos /dev/wd2e /mnt

> and my ext3 partition? can i use the ext2 type?
> is xfs or reiser supported?
> is hfs and hfsplus (ppc) supported?

To see what's supported, try "ls /sbin/mount*".  When you say "mount -t
xxx", what gets invoked is "mount_xxx".  

To mount anything, NetBSD needs to know where it is.  The only place it
looks is the device's disklabel, so if you want to mount a "foreign"
partition, you have to add it to the disklabel.  Cf. disklable(8).  Use
fdisk(8) to discover the geometry.  It's not the easiest thing.  Here's a
more complicated one:

#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  d: 40188960        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
39869)
  e: 10233342       63       NTFS                        # (Cyl.    0*-
10152*)
  f:  2040255 10233405      MSDOS                        # (Cyl. 10152*-
12176*)
  g: 27904905 12273660     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 12176*-
39859*)


> my modem is in com3 (win) and ttyS2 on linux, where is on netbsd?

/dev/tty01

> how can i config the ethernet card? (no dhcp) where are the files to
> edit them? (are ther files or just with ifconfig?)

http://people.allbsd.org/~hrs/NetBSD/guide/en/netbsd.pdf

I recommend you print it out, at least the important chapters.  You
discover your card's device with "dmesg|more".  Mine is ex0:

$  dmesg |grep ex0
ex0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: 3Com 3c905-TX 10/100 Ethernet (rev. 0x0)
ex0: interrupting at irq 9
ex0: MAC address 00:10:4b:9b:00:ad
nsphy0 at ex0 phy 24: DP83840 10/100 media interface, rev. 1

so I'd use 

# ifconfig ex0 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 up

to start it.  

> how can i start or stop daemons?

See "man rc.d" and "ls /etc/rc.d".  The thing is, normally you need write
access to /etc/rc.conf.  To force daemons to start without editing
rc.conf, use "forcestart", as in:

	$ /etc/rc.d/named forcestart

> Where i have to put my scripts to run at boottime?

Again, with the livecd, I don't know if anything can be done.  Normally,
you'd add stuff to /etc/rc.local.  

> can livecd be installed on HD? or i have to use the install cd?

You need the install CD or floppy.  

--jkl