Re: Installation to removable disks

["Matt Nawrocki" <matt%postpro.net@localhost>]

Hi John,

I'm booted into sysinst and dumped myself to single user mode. I navigated to /dev and I see no MAKEDEV script here. Do I need to generate this somehow?



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  Matt Nawrocki
  matt%postpro.net@localhost

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019, at 11:27 AM, John Klos wrote:
> > 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
>