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Re: help: /dev/.devfs file

To: Lewis Brown <lewisb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: help: /dev/.devfs file
From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:18:57 -0400
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Lewis Brown writes:
> I've just installed RH7.1, which comes with devfs in the kernel
> (2.4.2-2).  Yet I cannot run the daemon, nor mount the fs due to the
> lack of the /dev/.devfs file, which is nowhere to be found.  Having read
> the docs several times, I still haven't discovered how to properly
> create this file (special character device file - but no major/minor
> numbers).

Pass "devfs=mount" on the kernel command line.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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