[Madlug] install

[Will McDonald]

It's used in both the new Mandrake and RedHats.

-w

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Aaron Schumacher wrote:
> I would just like to say that I am not yet a big fan of devfs... is it
> used by current distros?  I didn't think it was, but I may be wrong. 
> It's still marked experimental in the kernel, isn't it?
> 
> - Aaron
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2001-11-15 at 09:06, Will McDonald wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Timm Murray wrote:
> > > (for USB mouse under linux 2.4)
> > > ln -s /dev/input/mice /dev/mouse
> > 
> > So far I like DevFS; however, the solution you just provided won't last across
> > reboots because devfsd recreates the fs upon start, and/or restores it from
> > /var in order to keep permissions right. Does anyone know *how* we can keep
> > symlinks in DevFS (even if it isn't philosophically right)?
> > 
> > -will
> > 

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