AW: [gentoo-dev] Problems with rc5

[Sebastian Werner]

Is this method to remember better than the previous to copy files to
/etc/devfs...??
Yes it is, i think. I work in background and i must not know about this...
;-)))

Thanks,

Sebastian

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[mailto:gentoo-dev-admin@××××××××××.org]Im Auftrag von Daniel Robbins
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2001 17:03
An: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Betreff: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems with rc5


On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:03:49PM +0200, Sebastian Werner wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> first i must say this release is great. You have improve some parts from
rc4
> i think. The new method to extract the base-system i like. Some problems
and
> questions:
>
> Swap activation fails at startup:
> I don't know why, but when i use 'swapon -a' after login it works.
>
> And what does the /dev-state. In my previous installations i have
deleteted
> all entries in /dev and use devfs. I read in the script
> '/etc/rc.d/init.d/devfsd' that it is a bind to /dev. But what to do with
> this. Why we need it?

Any new/modified devices or device perms get placed in /dev-state (the real
/dev)
so they survive a reboot. This way, devfs "remembers" things.

> I will try to script a basic-installation script next days... I anyone
> working on this yet?

Hagabard on #gentoo irc is working on one for us.  Maybe you'd like to help
him
out?

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@g.o>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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