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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 05:21, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> - you need to have at least your root device, /dev/console and /dev/null
>   in your static devices, this is definitely true for all older systems,
>   but i'm not sure about systems that were installed after our devfs on
>   /dev switch (anyone knows if those have a complete static /dev under
>   the devfs mount?).
>   basically if you can boot with 'devfs=nomount init=/bin/bash' kernel
>   parameters then you should be able to boot with the udev setup.

/dev has been completely empty since 0.7.1 ISO, it relies 100% on devfs 
mounting at boot.
If this will be a long term problem let me know, I could install a MAKEDEV 
script to /dev and populate /dev with static devices during the installation, 
or just create the minimal devices needed ?

Hamish

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