> Yes this is indeed possible (I guess), though given that the "server"
> really only needs to be able to create /dev/console and whatever other
> devices are needed for netbsd to netboot single user - at which point
> you can create the rest of the devices using NetBSD.

/dev/console is usually easy, because most ports use 0,0 as
/dev/console.  However, that's not true on all ports, most notably
NetBSD/arm32, which is used on a lot of diskless clients.  8-)


> Perhaps a portable MAKEDEV.minimum would be a solution?

"see above."  You really need a dev.tar.gz, or a netbsd_mknod program.



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