On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 14:13, Collins wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:51:50 -0500 > Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 01 January 2004 01:34 am, Ben Munat wrote: > > > Just wanted to follow up in case anyone was wondering. > > > > > [ snipped ] > > > > Call me OLD FASHION, but devfs is the first thing I dump after > > installing gentoo on a new box. The steps I take are; recompile the > > kernel without devfs support, add "gentoo-nodevfs" to the append line > > in lilo.conf, correct any defvs associations iin lilo.con and fstab, > > run lilo, rc-update del devfs and then reboot. Once booted, move to > > /dev and run MAKEDEV. If you are running alsa, also run snddevices > > anad add in any symlinks you might need for various applicaitons... > >
The thing I like least about devfs is that fact that one cannot make a working backup of a root partition. On has to do a difference root first. I have working around this by making backups (excluding the /dev directory, and then (from a LiveCD boot), making a tarball of /dev which I can restore into a /dev directory on the copy before I try to boot the copy. Lincoln -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
