I made it thru the installation once, and had NetBSD running on my z50 
for the weekend, before accidently messing up the filesystem [i didnt 
properly reallocate the DOS partition, so windows still saw it as the 
full 1gig of cf, instead of the mere 10mb I had allocated].

As I go thru the installation process a 2nd time, are there any 
suggestions and steps I should take to improve the z50's functionality? 
The biggest problem I was having was not having the LCD blank when the 
system suspends [this used up the battery real quick]. A lot of the 
keyboard stuff was limited too. No auto repeat, delete/backspace do the 
same thing, arrow keys dont work at the command line, no caps lock, 
ctrl+fucntionkey dont switch virtual terminals.
Many of these issues I've seen mentioned on the list, but there seem to 
be many different patches and kernel versions floating around. Plus the 
dates and netbsd versions vary, which makes it unclear as to what 
features are now built into the kernel, and what still needs to 
modified. For example, I'm using a 2.0-STABLE kernel from asty.org, as I 
was getting the TLB out of universe error when trying to do an 
installation using the kernel from the NetBSD ftp.

Swap space is another issue. As I stated, I'm using a 1gb cf, so I didnt 
allocate any swap space, but at one point, I did notice the console 
reporting "out of swap space" perhaps allocating a tiny swap [say 
2048Kb] as I've seen suggested in another post, would be better?

Finally am I correct in understanding the only way to boot netbsd is 
thru windowsCE, using pbsdboot.exe? Is hpcboot.exe essentially the same 
thing [with a few more options layed out]? I assume most people just 
leave it booted in NetBSD, and have it suspend when theyre not using it 
[hence my problem of not having the lcd blank, and then needing to 
reboot thru windows. and the rebooting process isnt always smooth, 
sometimes needing me to remove batteries, and poke at the recessed reset 
button..]

I'm loving my netbsd/z50. Now that I've gotten a sampling of using it, I 
really want to fine tune it, and make it as functional as possible.
Thanks