Hume Smith writes:
   one question - if i'm always starting with  loadbsd ...
   from amigados, what's  /netbsd  for?

If you get BFFS1.3, you can boot from AmigaDOS by mounting your root
partition and not have a separate copy of it on AmigaDOS.

Even if you boot from a file on AmigaDOS, I think that one of the
libraries used by ps and other system programs read information
directly from /netbsd, and will either fail or produce strange results
if /netbsd does not match your boot file.