From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GGmQV-0004Xa-Vi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:53:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7Q0o0wZ015102; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:50:00 GMT Received: from mxo4.broadbandsupport.net (mxo4.broadbandsupport.net [209.55.3.84]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7Q0lp4i030753 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:47:52 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.4] (host-207-68-225-84.vista-express.com [207.68.225.84]) by mxo4.broadbandsupport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB9AAAAC007 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:47:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44EF9A34.40402@vista-express.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:47:48 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060728 SeaMonkey/1.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 and udev References: <1156496679.10001.13.camel@frankies> <200608251132.37823.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> <44EF63F9.7040300@vista-express.com> <44EF6920.2070004@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <44EF6920.2070004@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-broadbandsupport-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-broadbandsupport-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-broadbandsupport-MailScanner-From: teendale@vista-express.com X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: d6a0ff28-4a28-4a24-8245-c3ead7da80cb X-Archives-Hash: bf1bf64c8d97b955f160122a067001ce Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> I have mine set to no and it is full of stuff. According to Konqueror >> it has 654 files and 13 folders. Is that right? That is a lot of >> stuff. > > I think it is. > > After setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" and removing everything except > /dev/console and /dev/null by using the gentoo live-cd, the number of > my devices decreased to 850 from formerly 5200. > > A note for everybody who uses gensplash and splashutils. After i > deleted the device files and rebooted the silent mode refused to work. > So i decided to reemerge splashutils. But this is not necessary. After > installing, the ebuild checks for missing devices, which was in my > case /dev/tty1. > > Here is the output from emerge which solved my problem! > > It appears that the /dev/tty1 character device doesn't exist on > the root filesystem. This will prevent the silent mode from working > properly. You can fix the problem by doing: > > mount --bind / /lib/splash/tmp > mknod /lib/splash/tmp/dev/tty1 c 4 1 > umount /lib/splash/tmp > > I hope this helps to avoid confusion! > > Daniel So doing a rm -rf /dev/* would be a bad idea? Can I just move them and then copy them back? Or is what I have normal number wise? Full of questions ain't I? Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list