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Re: kinda off topic

To: Tom Duffy <tduffy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: kinda off topic
From: Russel Ingram <ringram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:08:27 -0700 (MST)
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0103251641550.19348-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Again, very cool.  I did know how its done, just thought it ought to be
done at install time.

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Tom Duffy wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Russel Ingram wrote:
>
> > One other semi-related thing.  Could we get the devfsd.conf file to
> > include entries to set up /dev/cdrom and /dev/mouse?
>
> the way we solve this is that we create symlinks for them on boot up.
> basically, if you create a symlink, when the machine goes down (nicely),
> it records where your symlinks are in a file called device_catalog and
> then recreates them when you boot back up.
>
> not very elegant, but it works.  this should be in the rpms when we
> include them on the iso..
>
> -tduffy
>
>

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