Re: Making Devices on First Install
Greetings!
On 21 Mar, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:44:01AM -0600, Bryan Walton wrote:
>> I am working to get the Hurd installed. So far, everything is
>> going fine. I got the Hurd to boot, using the large tar ball, and have
>> run the native install script. Now, I need to make some devices.
>> This may seem obvious to some. Please bear with me, how do I know
>> what devices I need to make? I am running the Hurd on an IBM Thinkpad
>> 390E. I assume I need to make devices for my CD-Rom, floppy, various
>> ports, PCMCIA, all partitions, etc. Is this correct, Also, how do I know
>> what to label these devices? Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> SCSI and IDE devices are sdX and hdX, where X is a number from 0 to something.
> (hd0, hd1, hd2, hd3). This is the whole disk. Partitions on this disk are
> either in BSD disklabel format (then you know how they are named), or they
> are dos labels, then these dos partitions are called slices (linux uses dos
> partition table format as well, mind you). Slices are represanted by sY, where
> Y is a number. For example: hd0s1 is the first primary partition on the first
> disk etc. (The number is the same as in linux). The floppy device is called
> fd0 for the first floppy (does anybody still have more than one drive?).
If I remember correctly, some of the Thinkpads do not use standard IDE
controllers which leads Linux to believe they use some weird EIDE
(?something starting with E, do not remember for sure?) conroller so
the drives' names (Linux) are /dev/e*
Maybe the same problem here?
Bye
Volker
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