After some searching I found that you have to enable something called:
UNIX 98 PTY support (If they had said PTS support I wouldn't have
had to ask!)
This is found under the Character devices section. If this is not enabled, you don't
get the choice
under Filesystems to include devpts filesystem support (using make menuconfig).
Thanks. I am recompiling now...
Bruce
> If you're running 6.2 you need to have /dev/pts mounted as a psuedo file
> system. The mount is already there which is why you're getting the error
> message. You need to relink a new kernel which provides the kernel support
> for it.
>
> In the Bad Old Days, code that needed a pty would sequentially open
> /dev/pty0, 1, 2, 3 etc until it found one that's not in use. Under the new
> system you open /dev/ptmx to get the next available one. Also, the pts you
> get will be dynamically created in /dev/pts so you don't have to clutter
> /dev with over 1000 different files.
>
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> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Bruce Bauer wrote:
>
> =>I just installed RH 6.2 and am trying to compile a kernel for this system to run
>as a Mars-NWE
> =>NetWare emulator to be used as a print server.
> =>
> =>After the usual steps I get the following errors on reboot:
> =>
> =>mount: mount: fs type devpts not supported by kernel
> =>rc.sysinit: Mounting other filesystems failed
> => . . .ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
> => . . .mount: mount: fs type devpts not supported by kernel
> =>netfs: Mounting other filesystems failed
> =>
> =>These are the only errors in boot.log.
> =>
> =>This led me to investigate /etc/fstab which contains the following line:
> =>
> =>none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> =>
> =>This is apparently part of the default installation.
> =>
> =>Does anybody know what this is?
> =>
> =>Bruce
>
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