Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 +0000 schrieb ext Grant Edwards:

> I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional
> installation step to populate the /dev directory when using
> recent stage3 snapshots?

One usually bind-mounts /dev, /proc and /sys into the chroot, like

mount --bind /dev /newinstall/dev # dito for /proc, /sys
chroot /newinstall

If this isn't documented, you should file a bug.

HTH...

       Dirk