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

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:34:46AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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).
 
You don't need initrd, nothing my scripts to requires it, actually i
haven't used an initrd since testing bootsplash stuff with 2.4 several
months ago.

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