On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:40:10 +0000
> To: port-amiga@netbsd.org
> From: Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de>
> Subject: Re: mounting miniroot.fs
> 
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:05:18PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 05:59:31PM +0000, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> > 
> > > is it possible to mount miniroot.fs like a partition? 
> > 
> > "man vnconfig".
> 
>   Thanks, found it.
> 
> > However, you need to be running a netbsd kernel of the same OS version
> > as the miniroot.
> 
>   Seems this issue is more complicated that I thought. Does that mean its
>   only possible to mount miniroot.fs with NetBSD(/amiga)? I would like to
>   be able to do it with FreeBSD. I know that the vn interface is available
>   there.
> 
>   Gunther


In NetBSD is very easy (no special parameters are needed). I run NetBSD-hp300
with kernel version 1.4.1, and it works:

 - Configure the vnd0 device:

  vnconfig /dev/vnd0 miniroot.fs 

 - Mount the device:

  mount /dev/vnd0c /mnt

 - Dismount:

  umount /mnt

 - Unconfigure the device:

  vnconfig -u /dev/vnd0


FreBSD should be very similar.