So you may have few questions in your mind, indeed you're the one from millions who really knows the power of UNIX(or may be interested) like BSD Unix. Here today I'm trying to brief you about NetBSD. And how you can get stable working desktop on your laptop
YES this is what exactly you gonna achieve what you're looking in picture if you will follow step by step.
/etc/ifconfig.ath0
!wpa_supplicant -B -i ath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhcp
/etc/ificonfig.rtk0
up
media autoselect
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={
ssid="HUAWEI-B310-2D52"
psk="Password"
}
network={
ssid="YourNetworkName"
psk="Password"
}
export PKG_PATH="http://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/7.0.1/All"
Before you can do an initial (full) checkout of the NetBSD sources via anonymous CVS, you must set the
NetBSD stable branches are a flavor of “Maintenance branches”. Please consult the Section 30.2, “Terminology”.
If you want to follow a stable branch, just pass the branch name to the cvs(1)
For example, if you want to fetch the most recent version of “netbsd-7”, you just need to use that tag:
Dependencies generation and kernel compilation is performed by the following commands:
The result of a successful make command is the
After posting a link to the aforementioned NetBSD article in Reddit, a reader offered a solution in that forum (/r/NetBSD) on how to get audio working for YouTube. They said "as for audio on Firefox, it Just Works, but the default uses PulseAudio, which requires dbus running". They recommended these steps to get 'er done:
and control system audio with pavucontrol.
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YES this is what exactly you gonna achieve what you're looking in picture if you will follow step by step.
Alright.
Install NetBSD if not familiar with installation please go through installation on google or youtube
We used Netbsd 7.0.1 amd64 Image for installation purpose.
and after installation what you might need to do first is below.
STEPS TO PERFORM FIRST
- To get internet or WIFI working you need to first check your wireless and Ethernet card names in my case when I entered ifconfig I get the names like ath0 for wireless and rtk0 for Ethernet.
- You need to create three files /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf , /etc/ifconfig.ath0 and /etc/ifconfig.rtk0
- Contents of the files are below, you need to adjust as per your environment
/etc/ifconfig.ath0
!wpa_supplicant -B -i ath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhcp
/etc/ificonfig.rtk0
up
media autoselect
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={
ssid="HUAWEI-B310-2D52"
psk="Password"
}
network={
ssid="YourNetworkName"
psk="Password"
}
- You Need to set pkgsrc link in /root/.profile for direct pkgsrc fetching
export PKG_PATH="http://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/7.0.1/All"
Now you will be able to run this command pkg_add -v desiredpackagename without any error.
#####MAKING YOUR NETBSD SYSTEM 7.0.1 RELEASE TO 7_STABLE ######
This is the main part and a bit complicated because we're going to fetch NetBSD stable source and recompiling and installing kernel.
Downloading sources for a NetBSD stable branch
Before you can do an initial (full) checkout of the NetBSD sources via anonymous CVS, you must set the
CVSROOT
environment variable, which
tells cvs(1) where to fetch the files from:Make sure that the environment variable$
export CVSROOT="anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot"
CVS_RSH
is set to “ssh”.$
export CVS_RSH="ssh"
NetBSD stable branches are a flavor of “Maintenance branches”. Please consult the Section 30.2, “Terminology”.
If you want to follow a stable branch, just pass the branch name to the cvs(1)
-r
option.For example, if you want to fetch the most recent version of “netbsd-7”, you just need to use that tag:
And for the “xsrc” module:$
cd /usr
$
cvs checkout -r netbsd-7 -P src
If you have checked out sources from a stable branch in$
cvs checkout -r netbsd-7 -P xsrc
/usr/src
and want
to update them to get the latest security and bug fixes, run:The same applies to the “xsrc” module, but in that case you will have to change your working directory to$
cd /usr/src
$
cvs update -dP
/usr/xsrc
first.Configuring the kernel manually
When you've finished modifying the kernel configuration file (which we'll callMYKERNEL
), you should issue the
following command:$
config MYKERNEL
If MYKERNEL
contains no errors, the
config(1) program will create the necessary files for
the compilation of the kernel, otherwise it will be necessary to correct
the errors before running config(1) again.Dependencies generation and kernel compilation is performed by the following commands:
$
cd ../compile/MYKERNEL
$
make depend
$
make
It can happen that the compilation stops with errors; there can be
a variety of reasons but the most common cause is an error in the
configuration file which didn't get caught by config(1).
Sometimes the failure is caused by a hardware problem (often faulty RAM
chips): the compilation puts a higher stress on the system than most
applications do.
Another typical error is the following: option B, active, requires
option A which is not active.
A full compilation of the kernel can last from some minutes to several
hours, depending on the hardware.The result of a successful make command is the
netbsd
file in the compile directory, ready
to be installed.You need to install kernel after compiling it otherwise it wouldn't work.
Installing the new kernel
Whichever method was used to produce the new kernel file, it must now be installed. The new kernel file should be copied to the root directory, after saving the previous version.#cd ../compile/MYKERNEL
#
mv /netbsd /netbsd.old
#
mv netbsd /
Customization can considerably reduce the kernel's size.
In the following example netbsd.old
is the
install kernel and netbsd
is the new kernel.-rwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 3523098 Dec 10 00:13 /netbsd
-rwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 7566271 Dec 10 00:13 /netbsd.old
The new kernel is activated after rebooting:#
shutdown -r now
When the computer is restarted it can happen that the new
kernel doesn't work as expected or even doesn't boot at all.
Don't worry: if this happens, just reboot with the previously
saved kernel and remove the new one (it is better to reboot
“single user”):
This will give you back the working system you started with,
and you can revise your custom kernel config file to resolve the
problem. In general, it's wise to start with a GENERIC kernel
first, and then make gradual changes.
- Reboot the machine
-
Press the space bar at the boot prompt duringhttps://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8564502499231768514#editor/target=post;postID=4981906295107079464 the 5 seconds
countdown
boot:
-
Type
>
boot netbsd.old -s
-
Now issue the following commands to restore the previous version
of the kernel:
#
fsck /
#
mount /
#
mv netbsd.old netbsd
#
reboot
Alright now all set Now proceed with packages installation. If you will enter uname -a command you will see 7-stable is running now.
Install the following packages.
$su
#pkg_add -v openbox feh tint2 gnome-terminal firefox vlc lxappearance obconf pavucontrol
once all done.
Past the following files in exactly same directory location. Please remember each user will use it's on directory like if you create a user of your own choice you need to login with that user not root user. You can also configure the same GUI for root user but it's not recommended for security reasons.
ok
#mkdir /home/username/.themes
# cp -rvf mytheme /home/username/.themes/mytheme
#cp -rvf openbox /home/username/.config/openbox
# cp -rvf tint2 /home/username/.config/tint2
# cp .conkyrc /home/username/.conkyrc
# cp .conkyrctop /home/username/.conkyrctop
#cp .gtkrc-2.0 /home/username/.gtkrc-2.0
# cp .xinitrc /home/username/.xinitrc
If you missed any of above files you will not get desired look. And if you already done as up mentioned and still icons or theme is not working use obconf and lxappearance tools to adjust setting in GUI mode.
All mentioned files can be downloaded from HERE
That's it.
And if Youtube audio is not working follow this below.
YouTube with audio!
After posting a link to the aforementioned NetBSD article in Reddit, a reader offered a solution in that forum (/r/NetBSD) on how to get audio working for YouTube. They said "as for audio on Firefox, it Just Works, but the default uses PulseAudio, which requires dbus running". They recommended these steps to get 'er done:
# cp /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/dbus /etc/rc.d/
# echo "dbus=YES" >> /etc/rc.conf
# service dbus start
and control system audio with pavucontrol.
Thanks for reaching here and reading this article please comment below for any question.
Thanks for the tutorial. I'm trying to get a similar desktop look and feel on FreeBSD. You seem to leave out some important source file locations, i.e., mytheme, openbox, and tint2 config files. They don't exist in your google drive and I don't see them on the filesystem after the packages are installed.
ReplyDeletemytheme is elegantbrit GTK2 theme can easily be downloaded or you can download and use more cool gtk theme. Tint2 rc file is already there with the name "brit.tint2rc".
DeleteUnfortunately NetBSD does not support my wifi card (Atheros AR9485) and all my gpus (skylake + nvidia). But congratulations for the tutorial.
ReplyDeleteCheck NetBSD hardware support here: http://www.netbsd.org/support/hardware/pci.html . If still not compatible, for the sake of configurations you can use Ethernet Cable or usb wifi card.
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ReplyDeleteI’ve been using NetBSD since 5.1.2, says 2012. I’m now on 7_STABLE. I love this OS so much, clean source code, traditional Unix and highest portability. But as I always adhere with Unix, which I don’t think the traditional Unix had any graphical interfaces. By the way, I always use pkgsrc and tcsh.
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