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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with 2.0.5 Tape Install Date: 5 Sep 1995 23:21:08 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 12 Message-ID: <42im14$a1e@reason.cdrom.com> References: <42i07c$s13@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: gi101@cam.ac.uk X-URL: news:42i07c$s13@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk gi101@cus.cam.ac.uk (G. Ioannou) wrote: >Therefore I think the problem is simply that there is no >/dev/rft0 device on the boot floppy, simply a matter of doing an >mknod. However, since the shell environment available on F4 Yes, you're right.. Hmmmm. I see no easy way around this problem. Unless /dev/ft0 works, of course, in which case you can probably just binary edit the floppy looking for `rft0' and patching it to `ft0<NUL>'. Crude, but effective. -- Jordan