On Apr 23,  9:49am, olly@muscat.co.uk wrote:
> Subject: Re: RiscBSD for beginners...
> In article <19970422.230935.84@starswan.demon.co.uk>, Steve Dicks wrote:
> >In message <Marcel-1.09-0422081354-bc8Bn4=@cjs.wr.com.au> you recently said:
> >> 2.  Is there a 'CD' distribution of [riscbsd] ?
>
> >Uniqueway's RiscDisc3 (25 quid) contains a distribution
>
> Isn't that rather old now?  If so, you'd still need to ftp a fair bit to
> bring it up to date.

It is very old (actually the ftp site is lagging a bit too).

> PlingBoot are meant to do a CD-ROM, but they seem to be rather slow judging
> messages on this list.  Anyway, their contact details are on the riscbsd web
> pages somewhere.

Regrettably the birth of Causality limited has disrupted the CDROM release
process somewhat. The nature of the things we've been working on recently has
also been much less incremental in nature than in the past which means you will
get a lot of changes all in one lump. As we can see these changes coming we're
reluctant to put effort into stabilising an out of date release. We need to
reengineer our release cycle. I expect that we will be able to clarify the
CDROM release situation at the Wakefield show.

> >> 5.  Where can I go for 'basic', not-very-technical advice/guidance
> >> with this seeing as I'm out in Australia !!!
>
> >This mailing list is not a bad place.
>
> It's not really the place for basic generic Unix questions -- it's meant to
> be a list for discussions particular to the arm32 port of netbsd.  If you
> don't have much Unix experience, you probably want to get a book or two.
> There are a number recommended in the mailing list archive.  Try searching
> for 'unix books' on:

Generally this list isn't too up-tight about people asking generic unix
questions. That said, requests for where to find TFM or a relevant mailing list
for a particular topic tend to go down better than direct requests for
information which isn't RiscBSD specific. As usual, on mailing lists, phrasing
requests as demands does not go down well.

Cheers

Rob