Hi Bjarne,

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 04:50:03AM +0200, Bjarne Thomsen wrote:
> Sorry, yet another question:
> 
> How does this devfs mounting work? Is it mounted on
> top of the mount point /dev ?

Yes that what it does.

> Are all the traditional device files still existing
> in the /dev directory if I use rescue mode on the
> installation CD? I could then create the missing /dev/null

If the rescue mode uses devfsd you would have to umount
it from /dev (I never tried if this was possible).

> Is this the way to proceed?

I have no problems using devfsd :)
I once had but devfs=nomount made life even much more complicated
so I waited for a devfsd fix then.

Regards,

Reinhard Katzmann
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