gabor wrote:
> hi,
>
> maybe it's a lamer question, but...
>
> i can't install that package...
>
> it begins to install it, the preparations take forever,
> and then he stops with unable to install: devfs mounted..
>
> i don't really understand devfs, but i thought that i should unmount
> it.. it didn't work with simply umount /dev so i tried /etc/lilo.conf,
> and add append="devfs=unmount" but it didn't help.
> btw. i'm using mandrake8.2 with the kernel from mandrake 81 (
> 2.4.8-26mdk).
>
> thanks,
> gabor
remove the devfs entry from the lilo.conf, reboot the system
mount --bind /dev /lib/dev-state
than update the dev-rpm and MAKEDEV-rpm (should work now)
put the devfs=mount back in the lilo.conf
reboot
