Subject: BSD-LFS Status
To: None <port-sparc@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Dirk Steinberg <Dirk.Steinberg@gmd.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/27/1994 11:46:05
Hi,

I'm now running NetBSD/sparc on a SPARC1+ formerly running SunOS
4.1.3. I'm amazed than almost all Sun binaries run (Emacs crashes once
in a while). Thanks guys.

I am really curious about the LFS. Since I didn't repartition my disk,
I don't have any spare partitions, so I tried to use vnconfig for a
test of LFS.

Any attempts to newlfs -L /dev/[r]vnd0[c] fail saying that the
disklabel is not valid :-( (Of course it's not :-) ).
Labeling a vnd doesn't seem to work, either.
BTW, the same experiment with FFS also fails.

So, what is the state of LFS? Does it work at all? How can I make a
filesystem on a virtual disk?

Thanks for the help,

	Dirk

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