On Wednesday 13 October 2004 02:18 pm, Marco d'Itri wrote: > udev will probably become mandatory At the moment, if your block devices aren't listed in /sys/block, udev seems to ignore them and to forbid you from creating them manually, at least in /dev. This made a CD writer inaccessible on a computer I was trying to fix recently until I accessed the CD drive via /proc. udev has some nice features, but until it works more reliably, I'd like it kept as far away from the standard install as possible. Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> ------------------\ | "Is it too late to extricate myself | | from this plot line?" | | "Yes." -- Fluble | \--------------------- A duck! -- http://www.python.org --------------------/
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