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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:45:39PM -0500, John T Copeland wrote:
> I already have devfs, devfsd, inittab and fstab changed, and devfs=mount in 
> lilo.conf.  From the discussion it appears that init will also convert from 
> /devices to /dev if you want/need to.  Do I answer yes/no to any related 
> question from the spell since I have devfs already installed?

Say 'yes' to the devfs on /dev question, since that will set an option
in /etc/sysconfig/devices (that file will be installed by init.d) and
setup the new inittab correctly. If it doesn't ask you about devfs
(because you already deleted /devices), then make sure to edit
/etc/inittab to use devfs naming and edit /etc/sysconfig/devices to say
DEVICES=/dev after casting init.d

> The wiki and sm-discuss say I need to install sorcery-devel before casting 
> init.d.  Do I get sorcery-devel from download.sourcemage.org or somewhere 
> else?  I remember Eric Schabell posting a message about this but I can't 
> seem 
> to find it now.  Any special instructions for installing the sorcery-devel 
> tarball?  I usually do 'sorcery update'.

go to the sorcery menu -> Options -> Sorcery Branch, choose devel, exit,
do a sorcery update.

> BTW I  am on the test grimoire, and I guess I need to get fresh update to 
> get 
> the latest init.d spell, right?

Definitely do a 'scribe update' before doing it, the test grimoire is
always getting new fixes and updates (not only for the new init) :)

> Anything else I need to know?

The switch should be pretty painless by now, after the switch you should
either do a 'sorcery system-update'/'sorcery queue; cast --queue' or
recast the spells that install init scripts by hand to get all services
started.

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