Bug#74322: (no subject)
Sender: apharris@arroz.fake
To: Harri =?iso-8859-1?q?J=E4rvi?= <harri.jarvi@mbnet.fi>
Cc: 74322@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#74322: boot-floppies: in installation /dev/pcd0 device isn't created
References: <[🔎] E13iBsP-0004tS-00@penguin.lake.fi>
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 13 Oct 2000 14:44:19 -0400
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08 Oct 2000 11:32:09 +0300"
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Harri J=E4rvi <harri.jarvi@mbnet.fi> writes:
> I installed Debian 2.2 on a system with a cdrw-drive attached to parallel
> port. I was glad the drivers-disks included drivers for paride and epat
> and pcd so that I could install using the cdrw-drive.
>=20
> Bug:
> /dev/cdrom was correctly linked to pcd0 but there was no /dev/pcd0
>=20
> My workaround:
> I created it myself with mknod /dev/pcd0 b 46 0
>=20
> Solution:
> make the installation create that device-file automatically
Done in CVS. This revealed a bug in makedev because it doesn't know
about /dev/pcd#, which I filed as well.
--=20
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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