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  • From: Joe Menola <menola AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] SMGL-0.8.1
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:01:04 -0600

On Monday 19 January 2004 9:21 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Joe Menola <menola AT mailsnare.net>:
> > > Well, LILO (with 'append='devfs=mount"') will tell the kernel to put
> > > the DevFS on /dev for you, or if you tell the kernel to automount it,
> > > IIRC,
> >
> > so
> >
> > > I'm not sure if the 'devfs' line is optional or not. If you feel
> > > adventuresome you could comment it out, reboot, and report back if it
> >
> > still
> >
> > > works or whether it broke. ;)
> >
> > I had setup LILO to mount devfs, and fstab's try to 2nd mount it produced
> > an
> >
> > error message (not a show stopper), so I removed fstab entry. And devfs
> > is working fine.
>
> Then that's a bug, if you'd be kind enough to file one against the ISO. ;)

On further thought, if the kernel nor LILO are setup to mount devfs, does
devfs get properly mounted from fstab?
A boot error message is better then devfs not getting mounted, IMO.

>
> > > > Where's devpts?
> > >
> > > Some say that devpts is not needed, however, I have found that without
> > > devpts GNOME and KDE terminals don't like to work as they should (they
> > > won't even open for me).
> >
> > Then it should be there, yes? I've never tried to run without it. I've
> > just always seen it there, so I added it. I'll have to play with it more
> > after X/ KDE is installed.
>
> Yes, it should be there as it doesn't hurt for those whom don't need it if
> it's in, but it breaks systems that need it. Another bug, if you'd please,
> against the ISO? ;)

Will do.

>
> > > > The installer warns when compiling kernel to include tmpfs support,
> > > > so why is
> > > >
> > > > it commented out?
> > >
> > > The 'tmpfs' support is to replace the 'shm' support for /dev/shm's
> > > shared memory, which isn't used, IIRC.
> >
> > Does it run well commented out? ;)
>
> Yes, and it actually (according to many) runs faster without using TMPFS
> for the /tmp system as the filesystem buffers/caching/etc. work faster than
> tmpfs.
>
> > Excuse me if this make me appear as dumb as I am, but what is "IIRC" ?
>
> "If I Recall Correctly".
>
> http://www.acronymfinder.com/ has been my friend quite often. ;)

lol, I thought it was a release candidate of some sort... thx for the link.

-jm

>
> > > > Sorry if this isn't the proper list...but hey, that's me :)
> > > > I'm sure there'll be more q's as I continue to build this system, so
> > > > if this
> > > >
> > > > isn't the place, where is?
> > >
> > > This works. ;)
> >
> > If it works, work it...I always say :)
> >
> > -jm
>
> -sandalle




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