Subject: Re: Installation

From: [email-masked] (Michael L. Hitch)

On Feb  7,  6:35pm, [email-masked] wrote:
> > Just a reminder, with the release of BFFS 1.3 we should
> > reconsider the Installation of NetBSD. It is no longer needed
> > to use dcp/filetodev, a normal partition will be sufficient
> > due to the provided newfs of BFFS, hence, all we need is
> > a good lha-file (or tgz).
> 
> Eh, take care... I'd say it's very difficult to do this under ados,
> as we can't create device-nodes, and they're certainly required for
> a rootfs...

  There is a mknode command included in BFFS 1.3, according to the
documentation, this will create the device nodes.

Michael

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