On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen wrote:

> I have now finally managed to install RiscBSD to my SCSI-disk.
> 
> The problem I reported seems to be in the 1.2 kernels. None of
> them are able to copy the floppy to the RAM disk.
> 
> The solution was to use the old bootloader and the 4197 kernel.

I can't confirm this. I just tried it yesterday night with the new 
bootloader from the 1.2-beta directory and kernel bsd-4444 and the boot 
floppy was loaded without any problem. OK it was the 1.1 boot floppy, but 
I don't see why this should make any difference.

Sorry if I contribute a bit to this flaming atmosphere, but you are 
making a lot of noise telling that the 1.2 install procedure didn't work 
and that there was a major flaw concerning the usage of logical vs. 
physical harddisk layouts, and a day later you tell us that you were able 
to install RiscBSD.
I start to ask myself if you made sure you didn't do anything wrong in 
the first place, especially as nobody has reported his unability to load 
the 1.2 boot floppy with recent kernels yet and it works for me?
 
> This kernel is compatible with my Acorn SCSI card, and when I
> used this, I had no problems using the install program with
> my SCSI drive.

Later on you write that you are booting with bsd-4444 so obviously this 
one's also "compatible" with your SCSI card.

> I have now formatted / as 70 MB below the 512 MB barrier,
> and /usr as almost 1500 MB above.

Don't you want to give me a little of that? ;-) There's about 1 Meg left 
on my root and about 10 Meg left on my /usr. :-(

> In other words I am now up and running.

Good!

> This must also be done for the distrib directory after
> it has been created by /usr/local/sbin/inst if you are
> going to use unixfs to transfer the sets.

Please keep this in mind and make sure it makes its way into the install 
guide. 
As you have experience with installing to a SCSI drive connected 
to an Acorn card, I hope you will help to improve the installation guide 
for it.

Markus