Re: Re: Re: Trouble installing sid via debootstrap

[Cris Perdue <cris@perdues.com>]

Hi,

> Cris Perdue wrote:
> > I downloaded strace, and ran base-config under strace, which identified 
> > the problem there as a lack of /dev/ptyp0 and /dev/ttyp0.  Adding those 
> > by hand enabled "base-config new" to run.
> >
> > So the underlying problem appears to be a lack of entries in /dev.  
> > Running dpkg -l indicates that "makedev" is among the installed packages:
>
> AFAIK this is another bug (or rather, a change in behavior) in sid's
> debootstrap. The docs will probably need to be updated to explain how to
> run MAKEDEV.
>
>  
Thanks, this looks like good progress.  So would:

# cd /dev
# ./MAKEDEV generic

be the way to go?  I'm not seeing a lot of info via Google, but this 
looks plausible and runs.

Cheers,
Cris