Digital cams & Linux

[Warren Togami]

not, though it may just require some deep voodoo magic. ;-)
>
> The 'special device * does not exist' error occurs because you don't
> have a  device entry defined in /dev. We'll fix that by creating a few.
> Try this (as  root):
>
> mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda b 8 0
> mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda1 b 8 1
> mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda2 b 8 2
> mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda3 b 8 3
> mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda4 b 8 4

Is this so because Mandrake 8.1 uses DEVFS by default, so the devices don't
exist until the system makes it available?  It should be automatic then?

I have no real experience with DEVFS...