Re: remake /dev

[Veli-Pekka Kestilä <fedora@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 28.7.2012 18:39, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 15:50 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
> > On 28.7.2012 15:07, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > > So, I mounted the defectuous installation, and I did a chroot to it.
> > > It works except that I have an error message:
> > > so such file or directory : /dev/urandom
> > If you really need some device nodes in chroot environment you can run
> > after chroot,  "MAKEDEV /dev/urandom" it should just create the device
> > (presuming the defective installation does still have MAKEDEV command in
> > sbin)
> >
> > -vpk
> I thought of MAKEDEV but does not seem to exist anymore on the system.
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qf /sbin/MAKEDEV
MAKEDEV-3.24-10.fc17.x86_64

Atleast it seems to in the f17 system I have set up for doing some 
virtualisation testing. Granted it wasn't in the default installation 
and I had to install it manually. But you could have found this yourself 
by just doing yum search makedev.

-vpk
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