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From: Amit Dor-Shifer <amitds@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] How do I get /dev entries onto a livecd image?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:59:06
Message-Id: 48D79698.6000804@oversi.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] How do I get /dev entries onto a livecd image? by Andrew Gaffney
1 Sorry. Wrong there. I meant I want /dev/watchdog inside the loop, in the
2 squashfs image.
3 Does that change the answer?
4 Amit
5
6 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
7 > Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
8 >> Hello again.
9 >>
10 >> I'm trying to get /dev/watchdog onto my CD. I'm using a squashfs fstype.
11 >>
12 >> The device is properly created by the kernel build stage, yet it
13 >> doesn't end-up in the image. Seems the 'unbind' action unmounts /dev
14 >> from the source before calling mksquashfs.
15 >>
16 >> Any ideas how to circumvent this problem?
17 >
18 > /dev is managed by udev on the LiveCD, the same as a normal install.
19 > You'll have to create a udev rule file that creates this device and
20 > add it to the LiveCD with livecd/overlay.
21 >

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] How do I get /dev entries onto a livecd image? Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>