On Saturday 08 September 2001 10:05 am, Ross Burton wrote: > Yes, it's me again. > > Once this is sorted I'll stop bugging you, I promise! > > Does the kernel-image for 2.4.x from unstable come with devfsd on? I > tried mounting a zip disk (external ppa) and the device was > /dev/scsi/0/... not /dev/sda4 where it normally sits. I tried > installing devfsd and it didn't work out-of-the-box.
Personally I would always recommend downloading yourself a vanilla 2.4.x kernel tarball from http://www.kernel.org. With kernels, this is one of the few areas where I think it is better to use the source tarballs rather than a debian package. With the kenel sources, you can compile in _exactly_ the options you want, including devfs. If you'd rather, install the kernel sources via apt-get. Either way, use sources rather than a prebuilt image, since the image will include a mass of unused and unnessary drivers for your machine. I'm using devfs without any real problems. I simply built my own kernel, re-ran lilo, apt-get install devfsd, restart, and away you go! > I had a read of /etc/init.d/devfsd and it quits if it can't find > /dev/.devfsd. I created that and rebooted, but then when devfsd starts > it sits on "Creating symlinks" and hangs. I tried moving /dev to > /olddev and creating an empty /dev with just .devfsd in, and this really > broke the boot sequence! The debian devfsd package should include a correctly configured setup... it did with me. John.
