On Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:27:03 +1000 (EST)  Karl Maftoum wrote:

> Hi,

G'day.  There seem to be a few aussies playing with NetBSD/pmax at the
moment :)

> I am currently working on 5 DECstation 5000/125 w/32mb & RZ56 drives, 
> with PMAG-BA turbochannel graphics. At 
> the moment I have two functioning, one of which is still running Ultrix 
> and the other which is now running NetBSD.
> 
> I was able to netboot the BSD box quite successfully from the Ultrix box 
> (i can elaborate in case anyone is interested). I have installed the 
> latest snapshots of NetBSD but I have a couple of questions 
> (surprise,surprise)

I'm interested in any notes you have, especially if they're different to
what the standard doco is.

> 1. With X, I am constantly getting "unable to configure keyboard/mouse", 
> what is causing this? I changed the minor numbers of tty00 and tty01 (as 
> per something in the archive) but still to no avail. I also noticed that 
> /dev/mouse has to be linked to /dev/fb0, this is not mentioned in the 
> MAKEDEV script however :)

Can't help here sorry.  I should try X on NetBSD one day...

> 2. My own account on the machine is in group 0 (wheel) and still I get 
> "You are not in the correct group to su root" what have i done wrong?

Check to see if you're a secondary group member of wheel, and not that
it's your primary group.  That it, you want something like:

	wheel:*:0:root,simonb

in /etc/group.  ``su'' doesn't care what your primary group is.

Simon.