Hello Neil!

In message <Pine.SOL.3.91.961031091948.21487C-100000@m5.physiol>
          Neil Hoggarth <neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> A lot of what Markus says is very valid, however there is one major
> misconception which I think needs clearing up. As I understand it, the
> "beta" and "release" designations that Mark uses refer to the underlying
> NetBSD source code base, *not* the ARM32 port specifically nor RiscBSD as
> a package. The whole of the NetBSD system has just gone through the 
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> With all due respect to Mark and his considerable accomplishments, I think
> that it is fair to say that the NetBSD/arm32 kernel and the associated
> "RiscBSD" installation tools, bootloader, etc, are still very much "work
> in progress" rather than a finished product. 

I'm aware of this fact, I probably haven't stressed it enough.
There are known bugs in RiscBSD 1.2-Release which normally shouldn't be in a
release version but can't be avoided as RiscBSD is still not a completed port
like, say, the i386 or amiga port. This is not something to complain about,
only something everybody who uses this port must be aware of.

One /can/ IMHO expect though that the installation routine for the release
version works and rather trivial problems like the missing egrep etc. are
fixed. The reason this hasn't been done was once again missing time, so
nobody's to blame, period.

Btw, the upgrade disk's still not working, same problems as mentioned before:
-"panic: Locking against myself" while copying fsck to the harddisk when
upgrading the filesystem.
-Wrong options for disklabel.
Isn't it possible that upgrade.sh is simply an old version? I can't imagine
this is the current version, this would mean that nobody from the whole NetBSD
community noticed this before which I can hardly imagine.
That the options the script is giving to disklabel don't match the available
ones also indicates for me that their version don't fit.

So long, Markus