In message <20020321190824.J508-100000@furtle.home>
          James Holtom <jholtom@furtle.org> wrote:

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> Many moons ago I had RiscBSD running on my RiscPC

Same here, around 1.2, IIRC.
> -- although most of my computing since then has been on x86 FreeBSD. Anyway
> I've put my RiscPC back together again, having remembered I've got RISC OS 4,
> and have found a nice big 15GB IBM disc for it.

Rigt, well I'm building a box with RO3.7, SA (revT) and 44GB IBM disc
on an APDL ideA.  I'm trying to use the whole of the 44GB, with RO on
the original 205MB.

> The bb_netbsd program for creating the NetBSD partition is behaving oddly:
> (CVS tag: $NetBSD: bb_netbsd,v 1.1 2001/02/19 14:09:01 reinoud Exp $
> 
> I used !HForm (2.52 01 Dec 1999) and allowed it to use longfilenames.
> HForm says the disc is 16383/16/63 C/H/S, but with LBA revises this to
> 29795/16/63. I formatted the RISC OS partition as 13315 cylinders.
> Unfortunately bb_netbsd thinks I've got -3328 cylinders running from 0
> to -3329... argh... I haven't let it proceed to mash my disc...

When I run bb_netbsd, I get 0--3977 cylinders.  Since I haven't got
anything on the drive I didn't care so just went ahead.  bb_netbsd
completes *very* quickly.

> I am wondering if:
> a) the disc is too big for it

I guess that this might be correct.

> b) the 'longfilenames' option I selected has used a whacky format, the
> bootblock for-which is not understood by bb_netbsd, or worse is not at
> 0xC00 ...

Being on 3.7, I'm not using longfilenames

> Can someone tell me what to do / reassure me 'it will just work'...?

Not me.  I'm just as lost as you!

> I note from the archives that there were issues with the bootloader, but
> I haven't got that far yet, and didn't see anything about disc
> partitioning :-(

!BtNetBSD reports 'Bad disklabel' on my disc.

-- 
Peter Bell - peter@bellfamily.org.uk