Hiya Alan,

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:07:17PM +0000, Alan Milford wrote:
> The installation kernel that i'm trying to boot, is the 1.5.2 version 
> ;-) and I am also using
> the !BtNetBsd application, (the file on the ftp server, with the latest 
> timestamp)

Ough ... hmm... well the 1.5.2 was before the split up and stuff was rough 
... am even thinking of omitting acorn32 from 1.5.3 release for this reason 
... i'll check it later though.

> I first tried booting the kernel with 17Mb of RAM in the machine, but it 
> didn't even
> start at all, so I put in another card and took it down to 13, and it 
> worked (up to
> afformentioned point).

Looks like your first DRAM was small ... it needs to be 4 Mb or so at 
least; didnt the program warned you about that ?

>  - the wimpslot issue was that it was set too small, and getting an 
> overlap or something :-s

Overlap? how do you mean ?

> I'd be happy to test a 'snapshot' - if it'll get something installed! :-)

Consider yourself a guinnee pig :) its nearly finished building it now and 
i hope to put it on the website in the weekend.... i'll have to install it 
myself too on my ARM710 RiscPC (20 Mb) so we can both learn from it :)

Cheers,
Reinoud