From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 10 08:57:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23958 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:57:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles176.castles.com [208.214.165.176]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23950 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA12351; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808101556.IAA12351@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Alfred Perlstein cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions about DEVFS In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:53:51 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:56:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > heh, the man page for devfs is quite terse but i tried it anyhow. > > options DEVFS > options SLICE > > problems i had: > > my scsi disk is detected however no DEVFS entry is made. (my boot disk is > an IDE drive) You need to look at the noise that SLICE makes when you're booting to see why it didn't find anything. > i don't think my sound device was found. Hassle Luigi about that; I don't think he's playing the DEVFA game yet. > questions: > > how can i make symlinks in it? ( i really didn't try yet, but i'd like to > have /dev/mouse -> /dev/cuaa0 and whatnot ) 'ln -s' > is devfs considered stable? it doesn't seem that usable in it's current > state, but i'm assuming it's operator error ;) Works fine here, and for lots of other people. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message