Poor reply, but as no else has...

cszjmo@scs.leeds.ac.uk wrote:
> When installing I got the error "unable to open MAKEDEV.local" -
> is this a problem, or something I can safely ignore?

Does ls -l /dev/MAKEDEV.local give any clues?

> When using Perl (V5.003, from a reasonably new RiscBSD set), it core
> dumps whenever I use the "keys()" function call. Any ideas? Is
> there a more recently compiled version of Perl around (or the source
> code so that I can compile it myself).

No ideas, haven't seen it, but the source is available at
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/perl5/perl5.004_03.tar.gz

> And lastly, I'm using a StrongARM, but if I try to use a StrongARM
> kernel (Rather than a ARM600/700 one) from the RiscBSD ftp site it
> doesn't work - claiming that it can't find a swap device...

Rather hazy here. I thought that new kernels contained support for
both ARM6/7 and StrongARM processors (ie. kernsl.txt must be out of
date) => just use a recent one eg., voy-5328.gz . The way swap is
configured has also changed with the advent of swapctl. With a new
kernel, which uses the swapctl method, you want to ensure that the
line

/dev/wd0b none swap sw 0 0

exists in the file /etc/fstab.

Cheers,

 Patrick