Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:42:52 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> Cc: hiroo@oikumene.gcd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: current install failure Message-ID: <20011003154252.U59854@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20011003133239Z.jkh@freebsd.org>; from jkh@freebsd.org on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:32:39PM -0700 References: <20011003214359C.hiroo@oikumene.gcd.org> <20011003133239Z.jkh@freebsd.org>
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* Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org> [011003 15:33] wrote: > As you've already noticed, sysinstall basically tries to create the > device nodes it needs under the old assumption that /dev will be > mostly empty. Now that devfs is the default, phk needs to update > libdisk so that it doesn't attempt to make the device nodes in this > way. Fortunately, the person who wrote libdisk is also the same > person who made devfs the default, so this ball is very clearly in his > court. :-) Just reminding you all that phk's suggested way of finding this information out is to test for the presense of the devfs sysctl as done in vinum. If libdisk does it a different way, then vinum should be updated. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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