Re: Indy Linux Install problem

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 05:19:47PM -0700, John D. Davis wrote:

> So dev console is one problem.
> 
> littledipper 13% ls -l dev/console
> crw-rw-rw-    1 root     sys        0,  0 Jan 24 06:18 dev/console
> 
> Can I just use mknod and change it to c 5 1 ?

The representation of devices accross NFS is not guaranteed, that is a
device that has major / minor 5 / 1 on Linux may appear with different
device numbers when imported/exported via NFS from/to another OS such
as IRIX or Solaris.  So make sure you unpack the image on a Linux
machine.

  Ralf