Re: Update of NetBSD bring-up

[Jon Buller <jon%bullers.net@localhost>]

And don't forget to create a few devices in /dev also.  IIRC, you will need
to do something like "cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV std" which will create 
/dev/console,
/dev/null, and a few other commonly used devices.  You probably will want to
create some tty devices and a few ptys as well, and you might as well do it
all at once.

I have vague memories of forgetting to do that, and needing to download the
install image again to get to the point where I could do that.  I think the
images were a meg or so at the time, and took about forever to download over
the serial line when you wanted to play with your new (or upgraded) toy
*right now*.

Jon

Phil Nelson wrote:
> On Monday 22 February 2010 4:53:50 am you wrote:
> > What is missing ? Do I have to extract the etc-package before I reboot ?
>
> It sounded good until you couldn't use pax.   tar is the program on the
> ram disk that you should use.  You need to extract on sd0 at least
> base.tgz and etc.tgz to get your sd0 ready for booting.
>
> Reboot the install image, mount sd0 and extract using tar those sets.
> If you don't change the sd0's version of /etc/rc.conf, the boot should
> stay in single user mode until you edit that file.  Read more about it
> in the INSTALL.* documents with the distribution.  I'm presuming you
> are using 1.5.3 distribution to get your disk set up.
>
> --Phil