Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:44:07 +0200 From: Ashley Penney <ashp@unloved.org> To: walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No MAKEDEV? Message-ID: <20010416214407.A62363@daphne.unloved.org> In-Reply-To: <3ADB49AA.FED31D9C@hotmail.com>; from wa1ter@hotmail.com on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:36:10PM -0700 References: <3ADB49AA.FED31D9C@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:36:10PM -0700, walt said: > I just upgraded a fresh install of 4.2 to CURRENT. Everything > seemed to go great until I discovered that I have only a small > subset of the standard entries in /dev and there is no > /dev/MAKEDEV or /dev/MAKEDEV.local. > > I re-cvsup'd again this morning and repeated the entire > makeworld makekernel installkernel installworld mergemaster > cycle a second time. > > It all went great except that I still have no MAKEDEV in /dev > and very few entries in /dev, all of which are dated today. > > I've tried using 'install' to move /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV into > /dev, and tried cp and mv and even did a 'make distribution' > from /usr/src/etc and always get an 'operation not supported' > error message. > > I did all these things in single-user mode, BTW. I don't run -CURRENT, but check your kernel configuration for "devfs", this basically dynamically creates /dev entries when required, rather than having the entire lot there. Have you actually had any problems with the machine as a result of the tiny amount of /dev entries? If not, I wouldn't worry too much. -- "People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." -- Unknown. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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