> I just installed NetBSD 1.6 on my old 486. I wanted to make a firewall
> box, it now works, but I can't ssh to it! When I booted the system for
> the first time I saw a "chmod: /dev/tt[Ps7x-1-9]: no such file or
> directory" (sorry I don't remember what it was exactly) line in the
> bootup messages.
>
> I just passed it, but when I tried to ssh to it, PuTTY said "Server
> refused to allocate pty" after my password/login (openssh on my linux
> box said something familiar) . On the 486, it said
> "sshd[188]: error: openpty: no such file or directory"
> "sshd[190]: error: session_pty_req: session 0 alloc failed"
>
> I thought that maybe it was related to the GENERIC_TINY kernel I used to

cd /dev
./MAKEDEV pty0