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From: Nickolas Fortino <nfortino@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:31:28
Message-Id: 2f4467c20901210031h283debb2x63115d3598a8f862@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots? by Dirk Heinrichs
1 On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com
2 > wrote:
3
4 > Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 +0000 schrieb ext Grant Edwards:
5 >
6 > > I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional
7 > > installation step to populate the /dev directory when using
8 > > recent stage3 snapshots?
9 >
10 > One usually bind-mounts /dev, /proc and /sys into the chroot, like
11 >
12 > mount --bind /dev /newinstall/dev # dito for /proc, /sys
13 > chroot /newinstall
14 >
15 > If this isn't documented, you should file a bug.
16 >
17 > HTH...
18 >
19 > Dirk
20 >
21 >
22 >
23 The best gentoo chroot guide I know of is:
24 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=2
25
26 Obviously, throw out any 32-bit specific stuff if you aren't doing 32-bit on
27 a 64-bit machine.
28
29 Nick