On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:23:10 -0500 "Lincoln A. Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > I'm not sure I understand. When I create a backup (done from init 1 environment), I have a script that creates the / directory structure, then copies(cp-a) each needed directory (obviously /tmp, /proc, etc. aren't needed) including/dev. All I have to change is /etc/fstab and add a new grub boot stanza to boot from the backup. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
