On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 12:47:30AM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I have an 2.4 kernel installed but with the old fashioned /dev-node system. > What is the easiest way to enable and ONLY USE the new DEVFS?
Take a look at the documentation that comes with the kernel-source package you compiled your kernel from. I haven't access to my home computer now so I can't tell you the exact name of the file but I think it was /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.x/Documentation/Changes.txt Have a read. It talks about migrating over to devfs. But in summary, what I did was: 1. compile a kernel with devfs support and also check the option where it automatically mounts at boot. 2. install the devfsd package 3. install your new kernel-image 4. reboot. 5. You may need to make some changes to your /etc/fstab to reflect some name changes with devfs. For example I found that the device name for my cdrom had changed from /dev/cdrom to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 and unfortunately there was no symlink in /dev to account for this - so change this in /etc/fstab. If you like you could change all the entries for each of the hard disk partitions also - but there should be symlinks for these. eg: /dev/hda1 --> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1. You can check out what they are called by perusing the /dev directory. Also, another thing that you should remember, the entries in /dev are created on the fly when the device is accessed. So when you do a ls -al /dev you may not see the device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 for example. But if you try to mount it then the device node will be created and you will see it then. Also if you do a specific ls -al /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 then the device will be created too and you will see it. Hth. Mark.
