On Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:24:38 +1000 (EST),
  Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@qut.edu.au> writes:

>Tony Parkinson wrote:

    [mknod errors]

>> What am I missing here?

>Good point.  Now that I look at it, I was actually using the mknod
>in Solaris.  However, given that the device files are created for
>a SunOS file system, I can't see that problem with that.  It works
>for me.  NFS should handle it okay.

If the special-device files already exist on disk you probably have to
remove them first.  If they're they're, use them :).  I believe
They're all there in the latest tarball/diskimage and in the 1.3-ALPHA
tarball/diskimage.  

I've started creating the diskimage.tar.gz by tarring up the contents
of the dd'able diskimage file, so bugs like this should be a thing of
the past.


>> The second point is a reference to copying the disklabel bits into =
>> /usr/mdec but there is no /usr should there be or do I create it?

>As someone previously mentioned, this is where bootrz and rzboot should
>be in the diskimage.  They are not.

This is fixed in the 1.3-ALPHA diskimage (both real disk image and
tarfile).  There's also a `sysinst' in /sbin/ which (on an NFS_booted
machine) should even work to label disks and unpack tarfiles -- though
it doesn't yet have code to write pmax bootblocks for you.