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Expand explanation of device node creation in chapter 6 (fixes bug 1593)

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Matthew Burgess 2005-08-12 19:44:32 +00:00
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chapter01/changelog.xml
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<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Expand explanation of device node
creation at the start of chapter 6.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Fix incorrect version number for
expect's installed library (Bug 1608)</para></listitem>

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chapter06/devices.xml
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<para>When the kernel boots the system, it requires the presence of a few device
nodes, in particular the <filename class="devicefile">console</filename> and
<filename class="devicefile">null</filename> devices. Create these by
running the following commands:</para>
<filename class="devicefile">null</filename> devices. The device nodes will
be created on the hard disk so that they are available before
<command>udev</command> has been started, and additionally when Linux is started
in single user mode (hence the restrictive permissions on
<filename class="devicefile">console</filename>). Create the devices by running
the following commands:</para>
<screen><userinput>mknod -m 600 /dev/console c 5 1
mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3</userinput></screen>
@ -48,7 +52,6 @@ mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0
mknod -m 444 /dev/random c 1 8
mknod -m 444 /dev/urandom c 1 9
chown root:tty /dev/{console,ptmx,tty}</userinput></screen>
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<para>There are some symlinks and directories required by LFS that are created
during system startup by the LFS-Bootscripts package. Since this is a chroot