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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>:
> Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > another update on the udev front, things are progressing nicely :)
> > Thanks to Hamish and Casey for providing me with a MAKEDEV script.
> > 
> > Changes since last time:
> > 
> > - the init.d spell will check the static /dev for console and null
> >   devices, if they don't exist it offers to create a static dev tree,
> >   defaulting to yes (this is only checked if the user chooses udev or
> >   static for device management)
> > - the udev spell now installs a /etc/udev/udev.missing file that gets
> >   processed by the devices init script to create the devices udev
> >   doesn't know about, the file is commented and currently contains only
> >   the ppp device, if anyone finds more missing devices they can be added
> >   easily.
> > 
> > Still missing is securetty and fstab editing, securetty is easy, fstab
> > is hard. For fstab it'll need to map devfs names like
> > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc -> /dev/hda and vice versa, same
> > for scsi. If anyone wants to take a shot at it i'll be happy to include
> > it in the init.d spell.
> 
> # cast -r -c init.d simpleinit-msb udev
> 
> Worked great (after I remembered to modify /etc/fstab ;))! 
> 
> -sandalle

Heh, may want to mention that you need initrd ("Device Drivers -> Block 
Devices
-> Initial RAM disk (initrd) support") also. ;) Luckily I already had it
(trying out bootsplash, which doesn't work).

-sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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