[Gllug] Any NetBSD users lurking around here?

[Ian Northeast]

Chris Wareham wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I've just subscribed to this list having returned to London after four
> and a half years absence. Judging by the first 24 hours traffic, this
> list is as lively as the Oxford LUG list (my former haunt).
> 
> Anyway, are there any other NetBSD users subscribed or am I in my usual
> minority of one? I use Linux at work but prefer NetBSD at home, as it's
> a little bit more reliable on the dubious selection of machines I own.

I use it from time to time, especially on dubious and old hardware. I
have a 386 laptop which will run nothing else at all modern, but I must
say that this device doesn't get a huge amount of use:) I had thought of
using it as a firewall but managed to scrounge a somewhat better one,
which runs OpenBSD.

I last used NetBSD when I rescued the data off a Windows laptop with a
failing hard drive which refused to boot; a NetBSD installation floppy
booted, mounted the FAT partition, mounted an NFS share off my server
and rescued everything. Tom's root/boot disk didn't have the right
driver for the PCMCIA ethernet card and it would have taken a lot longer
to build a custom one.

BTW Jim, even NetBSD won't run on an old RS/6000 (I assume these are
MCA). I see there's an experimental port for PReP/CHRP but those will
run Linux. It's fine on old SPARCs. I don't know about the SGI.

Regards, Ian

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