> I have bb_riscbsd. I also have the INSTALL pages. Unfortunately the INSTALL
> pages tell me to look at "arm32/platform/prep" but those directories don't
> seem to exist anywhere. I certainly cannot find them anywhere, and previous
> requests to the list have produced exactly no response at all.

I never managed to find them either...

> So my question is: what do I have to do to enable this? I have one 500Mb
> virtual disc (an IDEFS partion on a 1.2Gb disk) that I have reserved for ARM
> Linux or NetBSD, whichever will be the first to work on this scheme.
> bb_riscbsd seems to do exactly bugger all when I try to run it, and there
> does not seem to be any help files for it anywhere.

bb_riscbsd doesn't do very much (in terms of processing) - it just sets up
the boot block (as I understand it).  If you look in your RISCOS scrap
directory you might well find that it has saved your old boot block as a
file.  (That's what my copy of it did.)

> > (or something like that) which contain drivers for v5 and v6 of the ICS
> > interface.
> 
> Yes, got those too. Now all I need is for some help on setting the system up
> so that I can attempt to start this off. Any offers anybody? Please?

Try booting one of the RPCINST kernels.  Tell the bootloader to use
/dev/md0a (I think that's right?)  as the root device.  (I think you might
also have to configure RAM/memory disk = 0.)  Then click on BOOT, and
follow the instructions on the screen.  

I haven't got an ICS IDE card, so I don't know if anything is different
from using the internal normal internal drive.  Specifically, I take
absolutely no responsibility if the thing scibbles all over your disk -
I'm just explaining how I did it.

Hope this helps,

David.

PS - I don't thing trying to boot the install kernel can do any damage -
you get plenty of opportunities to abort.