Re: Install info

On 28 Jan 2005, at 17:40, [email protected] wrote:

>> I couldn't get devfs to work at all. There seems to be a problem with
>> it on certain releases. udev works but follow the instructions on the
>> udev page. (Mind you I also had problems with shadow and pam-login,
>> sigh, and I wasn't the only one.)
>
> That's... uh... strange that you couldn't get devfs to compile...

I didn't say I couldn't get it to compile, just that it wouldn't work. 
There are other
people who seem to have a problem with it as well in the forums and 
according
to the bugreport. I got errors saying that the root device was r/o 
regardless of what
I used as a filesystem. The consensus of opinion was that we should all 
try udev
et voila, we got to the next step. Strange but true...

> If you're up for a kernel recompile/extended troubleshooting, have you 
> tried compiling using the proto-2005.0 PPC livecd kernel?  Emerge 
> gentoo-dev-sources to get kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 and move the 
> following file to /usr/src/linux/.config before you do make 
> menuconfig... I would try just adding devfs support and seeing if it 
> works.
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/2005.config
>
> This will produce a bloated kernel, of course, but could help in 
> determining what's going on...
>
> Just a thought,

No, not done that. As and when I get this install up to a decent state 
(I want to try a recent Gambas
build but I'm going to have to volunteer to test it it seems!) then I 
may try playing around on the
other partition (Gentoo-1.4). Mind you, since devfs seems to be 
deprecated I'm not sure if
there's going to be too much kilometerage in it. Thanks for the info 
though.

groetjes/greetings,

Rod (who's just got Xorg working - having copied the entries from the 
old XFree config file
to the new Xorg one - sigh)


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