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From: brian@albury.net.au (Brian Scott)
Subject: read/write access to NFS mounted root
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Hello,

I have set up all the necessary things (as far as I can tell) to do a
BOOTP/TFTP/NFS boot of a modified install version of FreeBSD.

I have got to the point that the system boots quite nicely and goes into
sysinstall (just like it should).  Unfortunately, the root file system is
mounted read only.  Apart from that everythings fine.  If I mount a floppy
as /tmp I can actually make sysinstall do a few things for me.
Unfortunately when it gets down to the hard stuff, sysinstall seems to want
to start creating devices for the disk partitions.

I tried creating these from the other machine to remove the need for them to
be made (the server machine is also FreeBSD so this should be OK) but it
still tries to do it itself.

Is there something important that I'm missing?  Am I trying to do something
impossible?

Thanks for any help,

Brian Scott