Subject: Re: Can't NetBoot MV3100m20
To: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/23/1998 12:14:22
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Brian D Chase wrote:
> [4] Create the devices files in ./dev. I don't really know of a good way
> to do this directly on the bootserver. You could always create each
> and every device file using mknod, but that's tedious. So I just made
> the device files the normal way while logged into my VAXstation, I
> tarred them up, and I will send them to you in private e-mail. Then
> you can untar the files into the NFS client directory on your
> bootserver.
If your bootserver is running NetBSD, or some other unix with
a capable sh you should just be able to run MAKEDEV on it...
Hellava lot faster than on the vax :)
David/absolute
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