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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Robert Helgesson said:
> It's only my version of the init-system that requires devfs mounted at
> boot. We discussed automatically changing lilo.conf to force mounting
> but opted against it. The append line may appear on several places in a
> lilo.conf file (once per image= option) and changing the wrong one might
> lead to bad things happening.
>
> So you'll have to be very careful when changing to devfs. The default is
> to _not_ change though. I'll add an extra "Are you really, really,
> really sure you want to do this?" query :)
>
> The really smart user will probably keep the old system (unless it's
> causing problems) and get a working one the next time he installs.
> Assuming the ISO will install devfs on /dev.

That would be nice to have it on the next ISO (probably 0.8, 0.7 is due
out pretty soon, IIRC).

Benoit, can we get this done?  All the steps required have been posted
here, so it'd mostly be a follow the steps procedure.  :)

-sandalle

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