Re: Installing netbsd on another drive using existing installation

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:59:07PM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> ... why can't the installation floppy filesystem be vnconfig'ed, mounted
> and then chrooted into directly to start sysinst? not tried it myself,
> but should probably work ... everything else could be left to sysinst to
> handle and it should have the correct environment to work in (including
> /dev directory)

The /dev is created by init on a tmpfs, so you have to handle that part
manually when using chroot.

Martin