[gentoo-user] No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

[Grant Edwards]

I'm doing an install using the quick-install doc and this weeks
stage3 snapshot, and I find I can't use scp or ssh once I've
chroot'ed.  Is that normal?

  livecd linux # scp 192.168.2.4:/usr/src/linux/.config .
  PRNG is not seeded

I noticed the same thing in the install I did a few days ago.
Later in that install grub failed to install and after
rebooting, my /dev directory was missing just about everything.

Here's the /dev directory in the chroot'ed environment I got
using stage3-i686-20090114.tar.bz2:

  livecd linux # ls -l /dev 
  total 12
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 Jan 20 21:30 MAKEDEV -> ../sbin/MAKEDEV
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   75 Jan 20 21:49 null
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 19:29 pts
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 19:29 shm

I checked the contents of stage3-i686-20090114.tar.bz2, and
this is all that's there:

   $ tar tvf stage3-i686-20090114.tar.bz2 | fgrep ./dev
   drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-01-13 21:20 ./dev/
   -rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2009-01-13 21:20 ./dev/null
   lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/MAKEDEV -> ../sbin/MAKEDEV
   -rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/.keep
   drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/shm/
   -rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/shm/.keep
   drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/pts/
   -rw-r--r-- root/root         0 2009-01-13 19:29 ./dev/pts/.keep

In contrast, stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2 has a fully populated
/dev/ tree:

   $ tar tvf stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2 | fgrep ./dev | wc -l
   5181
   
I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional
installation step to populate the /dev directory when using
recent stage3 snapshots?

-- 
Grant