Well folks I'm almost there. I've got the qube
netbooting the NetBSD 1.6 kernel from an NFS export
served by my TiBook (OS X). Everything looks pretty
nice... except I'm having touble mounting/manipulating
my drive. The system can see the drive, everything
looks good in dmesg. But I can't use fdisk, disklabel,
or mount (this is a new 120 gig drive with a small
linux partition already on it) to access wd0.

I think the problem may be that the NFS export is not
writeable, and therefore I can't accomplish a "MAKEDEV
all" to make the device nodes. Would this prevent me
from addressing the HD? Even though the system already
knows it's there? This is an area where my
understanding of unix is a bit lacking...

Here's the fdisk output:
# fdisk wd0
fdisk: /dev/rwd0d: No such file or directory

I'm working on making the export writeable.. but so
far OS X dosen't want to co-operate... mountd is
claiming that rw is an invalid option... but it likes
ro just fine. Odd..

Hmm... so close... anyway, that's my question.. do you
have to accomplish a MAKEDEV all on the NFS exported
root (that i net booted from) in order to talk to wd0?

Thanks in advance for your collective wisdom,
port-cobalt.

-Mind

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