>Number:         10411
>Category:       port-alpha
>Synopsis:       Incufficient cd devices in /dev, and no MAKEDEV
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-alpha-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 21 16:49:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Elz
>Release:        NetBSD-current 20000527
>Organization:
	University of Melbourne
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD lavender.cs.mu.OZ.AU 1.4ZD NetBSD 1.4ZD (LAVENDER) #2: Wed Jun 21 08:26:46 EST 2000 kre@lavender.cs.mu.OZ.AU:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/LAVENDER alpha


>Description:
	There aren't enough cd devices made in the alpha
	install kernel (for some of us, anyway...)  And there
	is no MAKEDEV to easily add more.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Attempt to install alpha NetBSD from cd2
>Fix:
	There are plenty of free inodes in the alpha install ramdisk,
	so one way would be to just put more cd devices there - that
	would be the easiest solution for the immediate problem, but
	not the right one - eventually someone else will be missing
	some other device they need.   Instead include MAKEDEV (or a
	variant of it that will work using the tools on the ramdisk)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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