Package: cdrom, d-i Severity: important [ not sure which package to file it against; reassign as appropriate if needed ]
Hi, when you install sarge (or use the rescue system) you get devfs. While it was quite a culture shock for me when I tried this a few months ago where I first tried install sarge I did manage it with almost no big problems since I did know the logic a bit and could use bash to look. However, Linux newbies or people switching from other distributions not using devfs (and not knowing that something like this exists or how it works - devfs is deprecated after all) are going to be seriously confused.... They often just know about /dev/hda*, /dev/sda* etc. but not about /dev/ide/* etc. - especially since things like fdisk talk about /dev/hda etc. - but there is no symlink from the "normal, known names" to the devfs ones. Someone told me that devfsd normally does this? Can it be that it isn't ran? It either should be run to have those links or d-i shouldn't use devfs all all. The resulting system installed by d-i doesn't so what is the reason you use devfs/the desired effect? Grüße/Regards, René -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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