Your message dated Wed, 21 Sep 2016 01:19:36 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#365669: debootstrap and devices
has caused the Debian Bug report #365669,
regarding debootstrap doesn't create /dev/hd* entries
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Package: debootstrap
Version: 0.3.3
Subject says it all: no /dev/hd* entries are created by debootstrap.
Configuration
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VmWare on Windows, with an hda and a hdc drive.
Booting from hdc, which carries what I'll call the "base system", a
netboot image that I ripped off from my rootserver provider and adapted
to boot from hdc.
Incidentally, the base system is a Debian, with a 2.6.26 kernel.
I'm bootstrapping things onto the hda drive. hda partitions were mounted
on the following mountpoints (which hence had to be created before
running debootstrap):
/inst /dev/hda5
/inst/boot /dev/hda1
/inst/usr /dev/hda6
/inst/var /dev/hda7
Behaviour
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debootstrap runs through without any problems, and populates /inst/dev
in three steps:
1) Create the /dev directory (very early, even before downloading packages).
2) Create a lot of standard devices (core, full, kmem, loop*, mem, null,
port, ptmx, ram*, random, tty, urandom, zero; after download).
3) Create the MAKEDEV script and devices that seem at least partly
386-specific (agpgart, audio*, console, dsp*, initctl, midi*, mixer*,
mpu*, pts, rmidi*, sequencer, shm, smpte*, sndstat, tty0; almost near
the end of the process).
It does not create /dev/hd* (or /dev/sd*) nodes, though I'm pretty sure
they *should* be created (all the instructions on the WWW say
"debootstrap, then chroot", and don't mention having to manually create
the /dev/hd* nodes; I'm actually following their leads, so I'm not sure
where exactly I'm doing things differently.)
What next?
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* Did I make any dumb mistakes,
* should I turn to a mailing list for advice (I didn't find a clueful
one yet, pointers very much appreciated!), or
* is this a bug in debootstrap?
I'm willing to provide any logs or other information, or run additional
tests as requests.
FWIW, a full transcript of the installation steps I took can be found at
http://durchholz.org/jo/debian-install/Main/DebianRootServer . The steps
relevant for my current problems can be found starting at
http://durchholz.org/jo/debian-install/Main/AllocatePartitions#ConcretePartitionLayout
Regards,
Jo
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With udev and debootstrap only creating a minimal /dev (#571136), I
don't think this bug is relevant any longer and should be closed.
Ansgar
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