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From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing /dev/xxx entries on _rc5
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 14:32:24
Message-Id: 3B475F67.D95138E2@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing /dev/xxx entries on _rc5 by Collins Richey
1 Collins Richey wrote:
2 >
3 > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:15:19 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:03:39PM +0000, Collins Richey wrote:
6 > >
7 > > > I didn't keep good enough notes when I put up _rc4. The /dev directory does
8 > > > not have entries for PC sound and SCSI devices like sr0 (needed for IDE-SCSI
9 > > > support of CD-RW).
10 > >
11 > > I'll add this back; it looks like someone forgot to re-enable them when adding
12 > > back the generic-i386 devices to baselayout.
13 > >
14 > > > I don't see any version of makedev (I know, this is semi-obsolete), so what
15 > > > is the Gentoo way of setting up these /dev entries?
16 > >
17 > > MAKEDEV (all caps)
18 > >
19 >
20 > The supplied MAKEDEV apparently has nothing for /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 (ide CDROM devices, IDE-SCSI).
21 >
22 > --
23 > Collins Richey
24 > Denver Area
25 > Gentoo_rc5 XFCE
26 >
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31 Hi Coolins,
32
33 we use devfs by default now, that's why there is only a basic set of
34 devices in /dev
35
36 bye achim~

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing /dev/xxx entries on _rc5 Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>