On Feb 13,  4:37pm, paul.irvine@capgemini.co.uk wrote:
> Subject: BSD Newcomer
> Hi,
>
> I'm a 'newcomer' to the world of RiscBSD and would really like to install
> it on my RPC, purely for Unix familiarisation.  Is RiscBSD suitable for
> this?

Its one way to do it I guess. As long as you expect things to go wrong whilst
you don't know what you're doing I don't see that there should be much problem.

> My computer is an issue one RPC600 with SA-110m 48Mb + 2Mb VRAM, 16bit
> sound upgrade, 406Mb HD and, on a RapIDE i/f, a Quantum 3.8Gb HD and 8x
> CD-ROM.  Is this hardware suitable?

Should be fine, although not all kernels will support ATAPI CDROMs.

> Is there an imminent release of a CD-ROM available?

I think that most of the people doing CDROMs do them as a snapshot of the
current ftp site. There are no plans to make major changes to the contents of
the ftp site in the near future.

> Now this is probably going to be a really stupid question, but just how do
> you partition a HD with !HForm?  (I can't see any partitioning options).

You tell !HForm that the disk is smaller than it really is. This effectively
splits it into two partitions. A partition table goes at the start of the
unused block of disk to split up the remainder of the disk into RiscBSD
paritions.

Good Luck.

Cheers

Rob Black