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Hello,

> NetBSD 1.5 is now installed on my IICX, 8mb ram, 291
> root/usr, and 26 swap and 20mb hfs. I can boot
> flawlessly, and I can get to the prompt and it is
> pretty much functioning. Whenever I try to set up X11,
> though, I can't change the .conf file for X, because I
> get the error that I am using a "read-only
> filesystem." This same thing happened with OpenBSD, as
> I mentioned.
Why 1.5? Anyway, what most likely bit you is rc.conf, it contains a 
line 'configured=NO' or something very similar - with this in place 
NetBSD abouts booting and drops you into a root shell. You need to 
mount / read-write ( mount -rw / ), set up networking and such, then 
change /etc/rc.conf to configured=yes. All that should be explained 
somewhere in the manual.
Hmm, I had 1.6 running on an IIcx a while ago - worked pretty well, as 
far as it goes with a 16MHz 68030. I'd recommend getting more RAM - 4MB 
SIMMs should be easy to get and the IIxc has 8 slots so 32MB shouldn't 
be a problem. I used to have a bag full of 4MB SIMMs but I had to leave 
them ( and a lot of other stuff ) behind when leaving Germany :/

have fun
Michael
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