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

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:23, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:13:01PM +1100, Hamish Greig wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> I think the install should create a full static /dev, not everyone wants
> to use devfs, and udev is probably not yet ready for everyone (last
> count i've seen of device drivers that aren't sysfs enabled and thus not
> available to udev is 162).
> The minimum that's needed for init to work is /dev/console afaik, but it
> may need some more, i'll probably do some tests.

could you file a bug for the ISO, with your findings ? So I have something to 
work from ? I have a lot of work planned and no-one registered in the 
ISO/cauldron team has responded to any attempts at contact.
Thanks

Hamish

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