problems with enabling cdrom drives

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Devfs is your device handling system - it does them all.  It maintains some 
of the /dev/sdx for compatibility but they are links.  I'd suggest you 
check out devfs.  There is a FAQ but I don't have the address handy 
although I found it on a search engine.  It talks about how to go from /dev 
to devfs and maintaining what you have.  If you want to get into the hassle 
of replacing it check out the FAQ.


Joel Hammer wrote:

> 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.

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