I've just got a 3.2 Gig Quantum Fireball, of which about 500Mb is allocated
to RiscBSD. I'm trying to perform a fresh installation of 1.2-beta. I've
got as far as step 23 in the instructions; I've rebooted without the RAM disk.

However, when I run /usr/local/sbin/inst, I get the message:

: whoami: not found
: inst should be run as root

which is interesting - I'm in single-user mode. Any idea what I'm doing
wrong here?

If it's relevant, I have 40MB RAM + 2MB VRAM. Booting in 640x480 256 colours.
Using kernel BSD-4634-64MB with BtRiscBSD version 2.80.

Three other problems:

1. Clicking on BOOT gives "Current kernels only support 8 bpp for booting",
although the BtRiscBSD Screen mode reads "X1024 Y768 C256 F70". Changing
the screen mode using the Display Manager lets it boot, but:

   - at 1024x768 the screen is a mass of moving lines (illegible)
   - at 800x600 the characters are there but are malformed (slightly better)
   - at 640x480 everything is fine, but the screen is a bit small :-(

I don't think I had this problem with 1.1 (but it has been a long long time
since I used it).

2. unixfs gives "5 Error reading file system". I have two IDE disks;
RiscBSD partition is the second bit on drive 4. The command
"UnixFS_Mount 40261" gives this error. (as does 40260; 40262 gives "Error -
Invalid filesystem superblock or unknown superblock format").

Is this because I haven't yet finished installing? I was trying to get
it to work so I can copy the sets over directly from RISC OS.

3. Something that I think should be made clearer in the documentation -
that wd0 is drive 4 and wd1 is drive 5. I was close to losing my second
hard disc before I realised that the example given was for drive 5!

Anyway, I hope someone can help me with these problems.

Many thanks.

-- 
David Croft