complicated downgrade

[Matthew D. Fuller]

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


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