Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:9310 comp.bugs.4bsd:1003 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null Keywords: poor man's Unix Message-ID:Date: 21 Sep 88 19:21:27 GMT References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 9 When BRL brought up 4.3 the first time, we bootstrapped it off the running 4.2 rather than loading in the tape from scratch. The system came up, printed all the configuration information, but rather than giving the shell prompt it just seemed to go into a loop. Stopping the machine and booting off the 4.2 disk yielded the answer to the problem. I forgot to make the /dev nodes. There was a regular file called "console" that had so intersting stuff in it from init bletching. -Ron