Re: Installation to removable disks

[John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost>]

> Quick question. Can NetBSD work properly off of a removable cartridge 
> like an Iomega Jaz drive? I have an issue where /dev/sd4a doesn't exist 
> at all, which causes my install to dump to a single user prompt and 
> freak out. My internal hard drive does detect however, but I prefer to 
> stick to the Jaz Cartridge so I can "simulate" a real SCSI disk drive 
> (my internal drive uses an SD2SCSI emulator, which feels like a 
> sanitized experience when used).

You should be able to make the device nodes for sd4 and restart the 
installation like so:

cd /dev
./MAKEDEV sd4
exit

> As another test, I booted the system installer (sysinst I believe?) And 
> tried doing a scan for partitions to install to. Although my removable 
> Jaz drive showed up during the initial boot sequence, the disk utility 
> refused to acknowledge it's existence when I tried to scan for it, only 
> showing me my four internal 2 GB partitions for the SD card. Is there a 
> hard limit of 4 SCSI drives or something?

This should work once the device node is added.

John