>I was not able to mount a proper /dev from DEC-Alpha (DEC-Unix) and >DEC-Alpha (Redhat-Linux) machines. The minor numbers were reported >correctly, but the major were not. >I used a tar.gz archive for the nfs root for the terminals ... Traditional tars don't handle special devices, but I think GNU tar does. That's why I suggested cpio. You could always create the devices by hand using mknod. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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