Vineet Kumar declaimed: > * Nicos Gollan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030530 10:58]: > > On Friday 30 May 2003 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This is silly question 1 of 3. Every time I restart, the /dev/cdrom > > > symlink "magically" gets remapped to /dev/cdrom0. Which is the wrong > > > device, so I su and delete it and make a new symlink pointing to > > > /dev/cdrom1, and then I reboot and it's pointing back to /dev/cdrom0... > > > > You're using devfs which means that the whole /dev structure is generated > > dynamically. You'll have to edit /etc/devfsc.conf (search for cdrom) to > > preserve the change. > > I think you just had a typo there; the real filename is > /etc/devfs/devfsd.conf >
No, I don't have that file, just a directory /etc/devfs/conf.d/ with a file named mga-vid-common inside. This is probably due to my (unsuccessful) attempt to install and use mga-vid. A little history: I used to have an AMD K6-III in an ASUS P5-A motherboard. Somehow, starting with the Debian kernel-package and customizing it (my strategy is to start with the Debian config file and cautiously turn off un-needed features, build and install with make-kpkg), I had gotten things into a state where devfs was installed but there were no config files in /etc, the only way it would boot was if I specified "devfs=nomount" as a kernel option. The devfs docs refered to some default conf files that would make things work, but I never found them. Then the system started spontaneously restarting (hunch=motherboard), so I swapped out the motherboard and CPU, now using a Soyo SY-7VMA-B motherboard with a Celeron 566, running the debian 2.4.20 kernel for Celeron. One of these days I'll customize it, when I'm willing to hack through all the booting issues and spend a day getting my sound, cdrw, and dvd to work again. I notice that <kernel source>/fs/ contains stuff for both 'devfs' and 'devpts', but the Documentation folder just has a devfs folder. devpts is mounted to /dev/pts, don't know if this is the same or different than devfs. Any spare cycles of explanation or pointer to further docs welcome. PM -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
