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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
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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