Re: xbd2 is not created during installation

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:44:59PM +0300, Michael Dexter wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was experimenting with disk naming and multiple disk entries such as:
> 
> disk = [ 'file:/root/netbsd.img,hda,w' , 'file:/root/netbsd-swap.img,hdb,w' , 
> 'file:/root/i386cd-3.1.iso,cd0a,r' ]
> 
> disk = [ 'file:/root/netbsd.img,wd0d,w' , 'file:/root/netbsd-swap.img,wd1d,w' 
> , 'file:/root/i386cd-3.1.iso,cd0a,r' ]
> 
> These appear to work and the CD-ROM image, mapped to xbd2* is visible in 
> dmesg:
> 
> xbd0: 1024 MB, 512 bytes/sect x 2097152 sectors
> xbd1: 97 MB, 512 bytes/sect x 200000 sectors
> xbd2: 207 MB, 512 bytes/sect x 425408 sectors
> 
> However, a device is not created by the installer for use with installation 
> or on the system it is installing to. 'cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV xbd2' solves 
> this problem but is this normal sysinst behavior?

It is. Space in the mfs /dev is limited, so I tried to not add
too much devices for Xen.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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