Archive for 'System Administration'
How to install NetBSD on Compact Flash (for the Soekris 4501)
This was tested on NetBSD 3.99.16, however the instructions should apply to older versions as well. I have attempted to flag steps where you may run into version incompatabilities with “Version Note”.
There are a number of devices that will allow you to read your CF card on a NetBSD machine, the device I chose [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2007 under NetBSD, Papers, System Administration.
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NetBSD PXE boot install (without NFS)
This was tested on NetBSD 3.99.16, however the instructions should apply to other versions as well. I have attempted to flag steps where you may run into version incompatabilities with “Version Note”.
To PXEboot install NetBSD we will first need to configure a tftp server. You will need to insure that tftp is uncommented [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2007 under NetBSD, Papers, System Administration.
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Q: Why do I get ‘Undefined symbol “_openpam_debug” referenced from COPY relocation in su’ in NetBSD?
A: This appears most commonly seen after an upgrade from NetBSD 2.2 to 3.0.
This is caused by additional copies of libpam being installed, most likely in /usr/pkg/lib via pkgsrc.
You can first check this by simply
$ ls /usr/pkg/lib/libpam*
If you find these libraries exist, then you should check the following:
/etc/ld.so.conf
libm.so.0 [...]
Posted: January 16th, 2007 under Answers, NetBSD, System Administration.
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