On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> >distribution, that I need to populate /dev. Ok, this makes sense. But how
> >do I populate /dev w/o having a booted decstation 3100? Any ideas? Could
> >somebody send me a tarred /dev from a decstation 3100 running 1.2?
> 
> Usually, you can just run the NetBSD/pmax MAKEDEV script on the NFS
> server with the diskless machine's /dev.    As long as the
> device-special nodes have the right major and minor numbers, accessing
> them across  NFS will work just fine: the major/minor pair map
> to the `right' device on the diskless NetBSD/pmax box.
> 
this did indeed work. I just wanted to make sure that there weren't any
arch specific worries...thanks...

rob (almost there...just need to get it to mount it's root...)

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