"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:53:16AM +0200, Pixel wrote: > > > > try again ;p > > Indeed! > > > the new dev can be installed with or without devfs mounted, and it > > will even update the non-devfs /dev even with devfs mounted, isn't > > life great :) > > Life is great. I did see this new enhancement when I booted in rescue > mode to install dev and MAKEDEV. mount --bind is mega-cool. > > It must be noted however, that the reason I went the route I went is > because when I did an rpm -Fvh ... the "freshening" of "dev" blocked > the rpm install with major CPU usage, none of which was attributed to > a process (using top to inspect). So somehow trying to upgrade to the > latest "dev" caused my kernel to groan and moan. I do have devfs > mounted.
I didn't say that *this* upgrade will go nicely. Please cf tvignaud's mail on this. shortly: "kill devfsd" before upgrading
