Bug#32632: marked as done (boot-floppies: /dev/hda9 not created)
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Subject: boot-floppies: /dev/hda9 not created
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.1.4
cfdisk will make partition /dev/hda9, and dinstall will show it in
lists, but mke2fs fails. The problem is that there is no device file
/dev/hda9, on either the root floppy or the base system. The
workaround is to switch to VT2 and create it manually with "mknod hda9
b 3 9". This has to be repeated later for the base system. Hardly
obvious for a new user.
The problem traces back to a line like this in /dev/MAKEDEV on the
system used to build the installation files:
for part in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 # 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
^
The MAKEDEV man page says
"By default, only the devices for 4 logical partitions are made. The
others can be made by uncommenting them."
I think more hda devices should be supplied at least for the installation
disks. It may be okay to supply only 8 devices for hdb, hdc, and hdd.
(Note - MAKEDEV does supply scsi devices up through sda15.)
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux vanzandt 2.1.132 #5 Tue Dec 29 15:31:03 EST 1998 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages boot-floppies depends on:
ii libc6-pic 2.0.7v-1 The GNU C library version 2 (PIC library)
ii slang1-pic 1.2.2-2 The S-Lang programming library, shared libra
ii sysutils 1.3.2 Miscellaneous small system utilities.
ii makedev 2.3.1-10 Creates special device files in /dev.
ii newt0.25 0.25-3 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode win
ii newt0.25-dev 0.25-3 Developer's toolkit for newt windowing libra
ii popt 1.0-4 C library for parsing command line parameter
ii zlib1g 1.1.3-2 compression library - runtime
ii zlib1g-dev 1.1.3-2 compression library - development
ii recode 3.4.1-11 Character set conversion utility.
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