Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): > What should be done instead? FTR, what's in IG is currently > > “D.3.4.1. Create device files > > At this point /dev/ only contains very basic device files. For the next steps > of the installation additional device files may be needed. There are > different ways to go about this and which method you should use depends on > the host system you are using for the installation, on whether you intend to > use a modular kernel or not, and on whether you intend to use dynamic (e.g. > using udev) or static device files for the new system. > > A few of the available options are: > * create a default set of static device files using > # cd /dev > # MAKEDEV generic > * manually create only specific device files using MAKEDEV > * bind mount /dev from your host system on top of /dev in the target system; > note that the postinst scripts of some packages may try to create device > files, so this option should only be used with care” > > The /dev/sda* or /dev/hda* entries are for instance needed to get the > next steps working. Is bind mounting some other Linux system's /dev > really the now-recommended way?
Hmmm. I'd vote for keeping the first paragraph only. Maybe add something saying roughly that, by default, a system with udev installed is good enough for most uses.
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