/dev/pts is included in /dev file system (CONFIG_DEVFS_FS) in the 2.4.20+ kernel. For some reason, they dropped support for it in the 2.6 kernel. The gentoo installation guide assumes use of the 2.4.20 kernel. Maybe they should make a note of this in the install guide?
luke On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:15:44PM +0200, Martin Larsson wrote: > If it's not bad to have, why not recomend it? > It had atleast saved me some couple of hours ;) > > > Sven Vermeulen wrote: > > >Any reason in particular why we explicitly discourage users to enable > >/dev/pts (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS) in their kernels? I know that it is needed for > >2.6 kernels, and I have a report that some terminal-emulators need it too > >(#27583). > > > >If not, can I just remove it alltogether from the guide? Or tell the users > >to > >enable it instead of disabling it? > > > >Wkr, > > Sven Vermeulen > > > > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
