Subject: Re: 1.5a2 installation kernel??
To: port-arm32 <port-arm32@netbsd.org>
From: M Pollard <M.Pollard@bristol.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/24/2000 12:22:30
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mike Pumford wrote:
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> > > > IDE. There have been no updates to the Cumana SCSI driver AFAIK. I
> > > > suspect Chris Gilbert may have 1.5ALPHA2 install kernels as a side
> > > > effect of his CD preparations for the RiscOS 2000 show NetBSD stand.
> > >
> > > one emailing to matt@drunk.custard.org would be cool ;)
> > >
> > I only have 1.5ALPHA install kernel which I uploaded a while back to
> > http://www.black-star.demon.co.uk/RPCINST.gz
> >
> 	Uploading Chris's complete snapshot to
> 	ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/arm32/snapshot/20001010-1.5_ALPHA2
> 	now - kernels are already there, and the sets should finish
> 	shortly.
> 
> > Yes bb_riscbsd needs to report a positive value and then write this
> > value into a spare slot in the filecore bootblock. I don't know if this
> > is F+ compatible as I am still running with RISCOS 3.7. Has anyone got
> > NetBSD installed on the same disk as a RISC OS4/F+ filecore format
> > partition? bb_riscbsd is BASIC perhaps the maths just overflows for
> > 2GB+ partitions so needs a little tweaking.
> 
> 	Ack.. another thing to try to get fixed for 1.5 :)

If you tweak it i'll try and install netbsd on my simtec idefs 6gb
partition. I am sure that i have used 4gb in the past for the partition
under riscos 3.7....

matt

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