remake /dev

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 15:50 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
> On 28.7.2012 15:07, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > My idea what to repair the installation from another installation.
> > 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
> >
> > Same thing when I make a yum --version
> > There is no files in /dev, I though that I should rebuild it
> 
> 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.
-- 
=======================================================================
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were
born to people you could not have possibly met. -- Fran Lebowitz,
"Social Studies"
=======================================================================
Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net