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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
Subject: Re: How do I get /dev entries onto a livecd image?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:12:14 -0500

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Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> Hello again.
> 
> I'm trying to get /dev/watchdog onto my CD. I'm using a squashfs fstype.
> 
> The device is properly created by the kernel build stage, yet it doesn't 
> end-up in the image. Seems the  'unbind' action unmounts /dev from the 
> source before calling mksquashfs.
> 
> Any ideas how to circumvent this problem?

/dev is managed by udev on the LiveCD, the same as a normal install. You'll have 
to create a udev rule file that creates this device and add it to the LiveCD 
with livecd/overlay.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer            Catalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead


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