problems with enabling cdrom drives

[Aaron Grewell]

devfs handles anything you've got a driver loaded for.  I dunno, I kinda like 
it, but it depends on your usage pattern.  You may be able to copy the 
devices from a remote machine, but if there's just one or two missing (try 
turning off devfs and see what happens, making sure you've got a backup 
kernel with it on to boot from in case all is not well) you can use the mknod 
command or the MAKEDEV script to fix it up.  devfs can be turned on or off at 
kernel load-time with a parameter to the kernel in grub or lilo, so you 
really don't need to recompile, just turn it off.

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 14:27, 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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