On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Jan-Uwe Finck wrote:
> Does anybody do this succesfully, at least somehow ?
Not really "successfully", but yes. It's working. On my RISCPC with a
Connect32. Took me ages.

> I just wonder, because I still would like to install NetBSD, although
> since several month there's no support for the Connect32-SCSI-driver,
> at least not in the install-kernels..
Do these kernels boot on a Connect32-equipped system? --
http://people.a2000.nl/lsmiers/netbsd/
(Leo Smiers) has a 1.4 kernel that actually allows reading slowly from
many devices connected to a Connect32 podule. It boots (:-)). Installing
the 1.4 sets is a different matter. I could only set up the system by
installing NetBSD on the internal IDE bus disc and booting RISC OS off the
SCSI discs. Creation the filesystem structure was done by a 1.3 INSTALL
kernel with the SCSI podule removed from the system (as it wouldn't boot
when it's fitted). Then I booted the above mentioned kernel and installed
the 1.4 sets from my SCSI CDROM device. It wasn't as easy as it seems here
as you definitely want/need a 1.4 gunzip/tar binary set to install the
sets with the 1.4 kernel.

> Anybody out there who is working with that ?
I don't know.
There seem to be many fixes around to the Connect32 problem. None of them
seems to have been merged into the sources. 13 months ago a SCSI-TEST
kernel has been on ftp.netbsd.org that quite well supported the Connect32.

> Or am I the only one who wishes to use that ?
No, and no.

Gruesse, regards,
             -Sebastian-
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