> > I picked "make bootable directly from hard drive" in the Debian installer
>
> read the installation docs, its clearly stated that this step is
> broken and cannot work on its own. =20
Okay, I'm kinda dense. There is a paragraph in the install docs about this.
It's not complete, but it did gi
> you don't need devfs to get static naming. see OpenBSD.=20
I never saw static bus/ID based naming in OpenBSD, but I'll take your
word for it. However, devfs is still the only way to get such naming
under Linux.
--
Mike Shuey
> Er, how does devfs do anything different with "swappable" CDs? The
> CD player's device does not change with the insertion or removal of
> CDs.
I'm not talking about changing disks, I'm talking about swapping out
CD drives. I find it extremely useful to be able to add a CD or tape
drive at run
> > > But how long will that last. What I want to know is, what question
> > > was devfs an answer to? There must have been one, right? Is it a
>
> > devfs is a solution in search of a problem.
>
> that's what I thought.
devfs is _great_. Solaris has had this sort of thing (albeit with short
Okay, I'm stumped. I've got a Mac 7600/120 with two disks, a 1.2 GB MacOS
8.x disk and a 2.0 GB empty disk (not an apple, but with a Mac partition
label and driver partition). The MacOS disk is ID 1 and the other is at
ID 5. There's a CD drive at ID 3. The floppy disk install worked fine; now
I
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