>> Exiting to the shell allows me to run disklabel as well as newfs to create
>> my file systems.
>
>I have an answer for this one!

Thank you!

>I think this patch to MAKEDEV would work. I chose to hand-code the pty's
>as the normal pty maker makes 16, which is more than we need.

I would like normal "pty0".  32 i-nodes are not too expensive for the
present:-).