problems with enabling cdrom drives

[David A. Bandel]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:27:03 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

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

you can, but what's the point?  Just run the MAKEDEV script with
arguments for the class devices you need.

> 
> 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?

Unfortunately, not (unless you have one of my books like 6th Ed Using
Linux).  That's the only place I've seen devfs and/or PAM covered.  But
it's dated and I'm not authoring 7th Ed.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
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