Re: Installing with 2.4.0-test8 and devfs, problem with floppy
On Fri Sep 22, 2000 at 02:45:52PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:32:13PM +0200 , Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > So instead of having 2 different inittabs to choose from I changed
> > init.c to cope with it. I also changed getty to cope with it (diff is
> > send to maintainer and upstream) for after installation.
>
> couldn't the rescue floppy have devfs packagem that installs the
> "compatibility links" in /dev, so if init discovers it's running 2.4 kernel
> with devfs it executes it and we have /dev/hda again.
> And the documentation stays the same. You'll still have /dev/hda1 and not
> /dev/ide/0/1 (or whatever).
I like this approach much better. Or (depending on its size) we could
install devfsd...
-Erik
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