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Date:      Sat, 19 Jul 2003 11:39:27 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: complicated downgrade
Message-ID:  <20030719163927.GL44517@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <3F18CA54.C9AEFE55@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030718091248.GO76126@lucky.net> <3F18CA54.C9AEFE55@mindspring.com>

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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:34:28PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Terry Lambert, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Your biggest problems are going to be the creation of the /dev,
> which will need to occur in an rc.local on reboot,

Mightn't you be able to get away with this by something like:
- Downgrade / to read-only
- Mount / device rw on /mnt
- Go into /mnt/dev and run the MAKEDEV


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"



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