> fakeroot (as of today's unstable) fails to handle device files > correctly, at least on my mips box. This means the d-i images > have _regular_ files in /dev:
Er, it _does_ handle them correctly. % fakeroot sh -c 'mknod /tmp/fives c 5 5 ; ls -l /tmp/fives';ls -l /tmp/fives crw-r--r-- 1 root root 5, 5 2003-11-25 09:49 /tmp/fives -rw-r--r-- 1 clint clint 0 2003-11-25 09:49 /tmp/fives fakeroot doesn't grant you additional privileges. If you can't make real device nodes without fakeroot, you can't make real device nodes with it; only fake ones. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
