mknod question <-Re: Digital cams & Linux

[Eric Hattemer]

Anyone notice that in newer versions of RH, mknod no longer takes those
retarded major/minor numbers as arguments?  You just say "mknod sda3" and
boom, it's there.  At least the installer works this way.  I always found
those numbers to be pointless and arbitrarily conceived, so I'm glad that RH
doesn't require them anymore.  I'm sure they're of some use to a programmer,
but not to a normal user.

-Eric Hattemer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 2:45 AM
Subject: [luau] Re: Digital cams & Linux


> 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...
>
>
>
>
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