From: Stephen Bennett <spb@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 02:47:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051202024755.0203586d@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1133490923.15611.31.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net>
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:35:23 +0100
Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at> wrote:
> revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in
> the /dev directory. And this is not only true for the box where i
> discovered this, which was brought up from a 2004.x cd, but also true
> for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1.
>
> Is there any reason for this ?
Not all systems use udev or devfs. Plus, it's nice to be able to boot
the system when your dynamic /dev management fails for whatever reason.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-02 2:35 [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation Matthias Langer
2005-12-02 2:47 ` Stephen Bennett [this message]
2005-12-02 3:45 ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-12-02 3:57 ` Stephen Bennett
2005-12-02 5:32 ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-12-02 4:43 ` Greg KH
2005-12-02 13:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-12-02 17:00 ` Greg KH
2005-12-02 18:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-12-02 20:18 ` Matthijs van der Vleuten
2005-12-02 20:40 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-12-02 13:16 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-12-02 14:15 ` Petteri Räty
2005-12-02 14:46 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-12-24 15:43 ` Bjarke Istrup Pedersen
2005-12-24 18:59 ` Mike Frysinger
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