In message <48354387FD%jdl@cableol.co.uk> you wrote:

> Is there yet any news on whether I can get RISC BSD installed on my IDEFS
> system from ICS? I did see a note a week or so ago announcing a kernel with
> the drivers in for such a device, but as there was no announcement of any s/w
> that can partition a virtual disc on the IDEFS discs it didn't seem to be of
> any use whatsoever. I cannot boot a kernel to run on my system if I cannot
> first configure the disc to have a non-RISC OS partition!

I think that bb_riscbsd does support IDEFS, or it's certainly listed in
it.  Try just downloading the archive for it (bootloader.arc or
something similair) And try it and see, you'll obviously need a drive
that has space.

> So any news yet? I've been patiently waiting for 6 months now for some s/w
> that will let me run God's own operating system (Unix of course!) on my RISC
> PC. :-(

There are some test kernels on:
ftp://ftp.ph.kcl.ac.uk/pub/acorn/RiscBSD/kernels/test

(or something like that) which contain drivers for v5 and v6 of the ICS
interface.

Hope that helps,
Chris