On Tuesday 08 June 2010 18:57:21 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > # cd LFS/6.3 > > # rm -rf build > > > > and deleted /dev from my host system! No discs, no printers, no > > terminals, etc. I rebooted with a Knoppix disc, let it populate > > /dev, and then mounted my hard drive, and copied (yes copied > > using cp) /dev onto my hard drive. > > I don't think that would not be the case today since udev mounts a > tempfs on top of /dev and populates it upon boot. See 6.2.2. Mounting > and Populating /dev. At one time, what you did would have been needed.
But later, Mike says his system does not have udev. If Mike had known the 'basic' /dev entries needed, he probably could have used mknod to create them. He could have booted some Linux in a virtual system, archived /dev, copied it to the system he crippled and unarchived it. To quote an old SF TV show, "Many such journeys are possible." :) :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
