On Oct 1,  1:58pm, Dave J Thorn wrote:
> Subject: Installing....
>
> Ok - it's time for my bi-annu8al post about installing RiscBSD.
> Having had a succesful alpha installation my two or three attempts to
> install the beta were thwarted by lack of disc space, the time required
> to copy the discs over etc etc (all my fault I may add). I have now
> decided to invest a reasonable amount of time and money in getting a
> decent spec RiscBSD installation going.
>
> My spec is as follows : 24+2MB RPC 600, 850MB + 425MB Conner dics, AKF60
> monitor. I plan to extend this by buying a Yellowstone IDE card (Yes, I
> know they aren't yet supported), with a cheap quad speed CD-ROM drive and
> a cheap 540 MB disc. I will then switch my 850 disc onto the card, put
> the 540 ion the internal, format it to 512MB, copy mthe contents of the
> 850MB disc onto that, reformat the 850MB with the new filecore fto 850 MB
> and put the contents of the 540MB back onto that. This disc will then be
> re-formatted as a RiscBSD disc using the whole (or as much as possible
> below the 512MB barrier) disc for RiscBSD.
>
> My questions are : Am I able to get hold of a CD-ROM with RiscBSD on it
> (I know they are available from time to time but I would like a 1.2
> release when it becomes available) ? If so, who do I conbtact for details ?
>
> Dopes anybody have any comments on my ideas here (the CD will be copied
> to the RiscBSD patitiona by UNixFRS). If anybody thinks they are
> fundamentally flawed, can they suggest a way to do something similar for
> say under 350 quid ? (The above comes to around 300).
>
> How much of a change is the StrongARM going to cause - are we talking
> just a new kernel or replacing/recompiling most of the programs/utilities.

In addition to the kernel Xarm will need replacing because it makes assumptions
about the cache architecture. I would imagine that this will be about all that
needs to change. It is possible that emacs will also need some modification but
I doubt it.

Cheers

Rob

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