[plug] MDK 8.1 Install Blues...

[Craig Ringer]

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>>mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device
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>You can make the devices by hand with mknod of a MAKEDEV script if devfs is 
>too dense to do it automagically.
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However, I've never had devfs fail to create a node when needed. You're 
likely to get a "no such device" error upon trying to access the 
manually created node as the kernel hasn't the faintest what you're 
talking about...

> I've run across this problem once only, 
>where devfs didn't make /dev/ppp and fixed it (which in theory I don't have 
>to do, but never mind) by doing a modprobe ppp before trying to run pppd 
>itself.
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>If this was Debian, devfs would still be in the testing tree. OTOH it has 
>saved me having to manually make some dev nodes already.
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I've been living on the bleeding edge kernel-wise for a good year or 
more, adopted devfs with glee as soon as it made it into the vanilla 
kernels. Never had an issue with it - but that doesn't mean its perfect. 
I'll take anything that cleans up /dev a bit, though - and it makes 
admin for my netboot workstations *infinitely* easier.