On Mon, 04 Aug 1997 16:30:37 -0400 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > David Brownlee writes:
 > > 	Support for mounting a mfs /dev was recently committed (primarily
 > > 	for MSDOS root filesystems).
 > > 
 > > 	Presumably the same technique would work for diskless NetBSD 
 > > 	machines with root mounted on a Digital unix NFS server.
 > 
 > Why would this ordinarily be a problem? Won't Digital Unix support
 > device nodes?

Digital UNIX (formerly DEC OSF/1)'s device nodes are incompatible with
NetBSD's.  Serving a diskless system from DU doens't currently work.

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