Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:56:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions about DEVFS Message-ID: <199808101556.IAA12351@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:53:51 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980810095005.12997A-100000@bright.ny.otec.com>
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> > 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
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