Subject: Re: Silly newbie install question
To: Paul D. Carlucci <paul@carlucci.net>
From: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/18/2000 12:30:49
"Paul D. Carlucci" <paul@carlucci.net> writes:

> The fun starts at the MAKEDEV portion of the install which hangs
> halfway through the install.

Don't know anything about that.

> Upon rebooting I find that the wd?? devices havn't been created.  At
> this point I'm stuck with a readonly filesystem that I can't remount
> as rw so I can create the device files to alleviate the fact that I
> can't mount the...  you get the picture.

# mount -t mfs swap /mnt
# cd /mnt
# /dev/MAKEDEV wd0
# mount -u /mnt/wd0a /

should perhaps work

/Johan