[John H. Robinson]
> i have found even more interesting results (with lvm, actually) when
> you mount defvs onto /devices and leave /dev as a ``normal''
> filesystem
What happens then? I have problems initializing LVM on SCSI machines.
Could this solve it?
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* Bastian Blank
| On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:09:00AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > * Bastian Blank
| > | debian-installer is using kernel 2.4 by default. why it doesn't use
| > | devfs to safe some initrd space?
| > it does.
|
| why is dev filed with a bunch of devices?
because nobody has
At 11:39 +0200 9/28/02, Alexander Koch wrote:
>On Sat, 28 September 2002 09:30:58 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> why is dev filed with a bunch of devices?
>
>As we are on it, how do you convince devfsd to create hda10,
>too? I had to put this in the devfs init script. Heh, it
>works... I gave up a
On Sat, 28 September 2002 09:30:58 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> why is dev filed with a bunch of devices?
As we are on it, how do you convince devfsd to create hda10,
too? I had to put this in the devfs init script. Heh, it
works... I gave up after 15 minutes of reading the howto stuff
and all t
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:09:00AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Bastian Blank
> | debian-installer is using kernel 2.4 by default. why it doesn't use
> | devfs to safe some initrd space?
> it does.
why is dev filed with a bunch of devices?
bastian
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* Bastian Blank
| debian-installer is using kernel 2.4 by default. why it doesn't use
| devfs to safe some initrd space?
it does.
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John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> mingetty allocated the first terminal, no problem. any second and
> subsequent totaly failed. agetty was able to allocate two or more
> terminals.
Yes, that is bug #81275. 2-year-old patch included in that bug report.
Paul, could you take a look at that since it seem
Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:27:17AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> >
> > mingetty allocated the first terminal, no problem. any second and
> > subsequent totaly failed.
>
> do you have devfsd installed and/or
yes
> use /dev/ttyX instead of /dev/console/X?
i made n
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:27:17AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> i had just the opposite experience:
>
> mingetty allocated the first terminal, no problem. any second and
> subsequent totaly failed.
do you have devfsd installed and/or use /dev/ttyX instead of
/dev/console/X?
bastian
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Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:18:46AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > there are a couple of applications that i am aware of that do not get
> > along with devfs very well. (wmppp and mingetty being two of them).
>
> mingetty works fine with devfs, while getty wont. othe
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:18:46AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> there are a couple of applications that i am aware of that do not get
> along with devfs very well. (wmppp and mingetty being two of them).
mingetty works fine with devfs, while getty wont. other software can be
fixed.
basti
Bastian Blank wrote:
>
> devfs is marked as stable within 2.4.x, also there are problems with
> not devfs-capable drivers (i don't find any the since several months).
there are a couple of applications that i am aware of that do not get
along with devfs very well. (wmppp and mingetty being two o
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:54:01PM +0200, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote:
> Perhaps devfs is not really integrated in the 2.4 which is a transition
> for this new filesystem.
devfs is marked as stable within 2.4.x, also there are problems with not
devfs-capable drivers (i don't find any the since seve
Le 2002.09.27 18:38, Bastian Blank a écrit :
> hi folks
>
> debian-installer is using kernel 2.4 by default. why it doesn't use
> devfs to safe some initrd space?
>
Device files consumes only inodes but not really much disk space.
But you are right, devfs should be better.
Perhaps devfs is not
hi folks
debian-installer is using kernel 2.4 by default. why it doesn't use
devfs to safe some initrd space?
bastian
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