hello

I need to create some sd* devices for usb disks but somehow MAKEDEV is
nowhere to be found


root@slack_server:/dev# locate MAKEDEV
/usr/src/linux-2.6.21.5/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/MAKEDEV
/usr/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8.gz
root@slack_server:/dev#

I went through /dev dir also. There is no script.

Is it ok or I do sth wrong?

Thank you

Hallo, =SERGE=,

Du meintest am 28.06.08:

> I need to create some sd* devices for usb disks but somehow MAKEDEV
> is nowhere to be found

You find it in the "a/devs" package.

But "udev" deletes the program - I've moved it to "/usr/sbin" on my
system.

Viele Gruesse
Helmut

"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

Helmut Hullen <helmut@hullen.de> wrote:
>
> But "udev" deletes the program - I've moved it to "/usr/sbin" on my
> system.
>

Is it even necessary with udev?

- Kurt

Hallo, ~kurt,

Du meintest am 28.06.08:

>> But "udev" deletes the program - I've moved it to "/usr/sbin" on my
>> system.

> Is it even necessary with udev?

It is. Some devices have to be present before "udev" runs, and "udev"
doesn't make all necessary devices (p.e. ISDN devices).

Viele Gruesse
Helmut

"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

On 2008-06-28, Helmut Hullen <helmut@hullen.de> wrote:
> Hallo, ~kurt,
>
> Du meintest am 28.06.08:
>
>>> But "udev" deletes the program - I've moved it to "/usr/sbin" on my
>>> system.
>
>> Is it even necessary with udev?
>
> It is. Some devices have to be present before "udev" runs, and "udev"
> doesn't make all necessary devices (p.e. ISDN devices).


Then copy them to /lib/udev/devices/ and you won't have to make them
manually any more.

-RW

Well Old habits die hard you know...
"~kurt" <actinouranium@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:ftydnSWMMJ0f9vvVnZ2dnUVZ_trinZ2d@earthlink.co m...
> Helmut Hullen <helmut@hullen.de> wrote:
>>
>> But "udev" deletes the program - I've moved it to "/usr/sbin" on my
>> system.
>>
>
> Is it even necessary with udev?
>
> - Kurt
>

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:49:06 -0500, ~kurt wrote:

>> But "udev" deletes the program - I've moved it to "/usr/sbin" on my
>> system.

> Is it even necessary with udev?

No assuming udev works properly. Sometime back Gentoo was using a
hybrid setup where udev would do it's thing but the system would also
pack and archive the /dev directory just in case.

Also sometimes I've ran into problems trying to chroot to a mounted
distro from another distro. It would fail because the proper device
wasn't there. A lot of distros only make 16 IDE nodes by default. Since
when you chroot you don't actually run the init scripts for udev on the
mounted partition you may end up without a node if you have a partition
greater than 16, e.g., /dev/hde18

If you have a archive for /dev/you can simply copy the node you need
over to the device tree and then you can chroot to the target distro.

BTW, just upgraded from 11 to 12.1 and am loving it. Fastest upgrade I
ever have done (I got a lot of stuff). And for once TT fonts didn't
take a ton of hacking to get them to look right. In fact this is the
best my browser fonts have ever looked and it's more or less straight
out of the box.

--
Email - rsgibson@verizon.borg
Replace borg with net
"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

Helmut Hullen <helmut@hullen.de> wrote:
> But "udev" deletes the program - I've moved it to "/usr/sbin" on my
> system.

It doesn't "delete" it, but the "udev" filesystem is mounted OVER the
original contents of /dev, so the installed files (and devices) are
only visible as long as udev is NOT running.

When you stop udev you will see the original contents of /dev again.
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On 2008-07-01, Ron Gibson <rsgibson@verizon.net> wrote:
> If you have a archive for /dev/you can simply copy the node you need
> over to the device tree and then you can chroot to the target distro.

Or you could just bind mount it.

mount /dev /new/dev -o bind

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