problems with enabling cdrom drives

[Joel Hammer]

Could you just copy all the stuff from  /dev on another computer to the
new computer?

Does devfs handle all devices, like hda1, or just a few esoteric ones?
Is there some good documentation for devfs intelligble to people who
aren't computer professionals?

Joel

> I'm by no means a devfs expert (i prefer not to use it), but i think you
> can safely turn it off in the kernel, but you'd have to manually create
> all the needed entries under /dev to replace the dynamic ones that devfs
> creates.