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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] /devices to /dev
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 09:24:03 -0700

>
> Kernel option bypasses this requirement... see in the kernel menuconfig
> under enabling the devfs...
>
of course, i just figured it would be an easier transition to do it
this way then making some people recompile their kernels and editing
lilo/grub configs.

> > fstab needs to be updated. The following should take care of it:
> > cat /etc/fstab|sed 's/^\/devices/\/dev/' > /tmp/fstab; mv /tmp/fstab
> > /etc/fstab
>
> I mount on both /dev [kernel automagic], and /devices [unmodded mount.sh]
> and kept this against /devices ... I get to optionally disable devfs on
> /dev
> and rescue my system if I absolutely need to... I have an alternate kernel
> that is patched for custom extensions that break against devfs presence
>
whatever works, the idea was that we would just move back to /dev
everything iirc, so im just concerned with that.

> >
> > I think that the iso's ought to change over too for all new installee's.
>
> I might look at doing this in the iso images I create
>
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss

seeing as how thats the best way to get new systems over, and since
there seemed to be a mailing list agreement [1] Id recommend it.

[1] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2003-June/003483.html




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