From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 16 12:43:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from daphne.unloved.org (daphne.unloved.org [62.58.62.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B98337B449 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ashp@unloved.org) Received: by daphne.unloved.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1133311787; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:44:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:44:07 +0200 From: Ashley Penney To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No MAKEDEV? Message-ID: <20010416214407.A62363@daphne.unloved.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ashley Penney , walt , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <3ADB49AA.FED31D9C@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ADB49AA.FED31D9C@hotmail.com>; from wa1ter@hotmail.com on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:36:10PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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