From: Rob Lembree <lembree@sgi.com>
To: Richard Hartensveld <richardh@infopact.nl>, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: challenge s boots linux
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:01:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3608103B.6F2844E2@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36081277.17A50BC9@infopact.nl
hmm, I had the same problem on my Indy. I found that
IRIX had stripped the major and minor numbers from the
device files in the tar distribution -- the answer was to
untar using Linux, not IRIX (gtar doesn't help), or to
manually recreate the dev files.
Try that, and I bet it fixes it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-22 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-22 21:11 challenge s boots linux Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-22 21:01 ` Rob Lembree [this message]
1998-09-22 21:41 ` Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-23 0:24 ` Alex deVries
1998-09-23 19:22 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
1998-09-23 20:54 ` Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-23 21:11 ` Alex deVries
1998-09-24 4:47 ` Jeremy John Welling
1998-09-24 9:38 ` Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-24 14:15 ` Alan Cox
1998-09-24 14:15 ` Alan Cox
1998-09-24 16:33 ` Alex deVries
1998-09-24 16:44 ` William J. Earl
1998-09-24 22:42 ` Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-25 5:45 ` Cool Jeremy John Welling
1998-09-23 21:30 ` challenge s boots linux Richard Masoner
1998-09-23 23:59 ` ralf
1998-09-24 0:17 ` Richard Hartensveld
1998-09-24 0:21 ` ralf
1998-09-24 9:29 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
1998-09-24 16:14 ` Alex deVries
1998-09-24 5:44 ` Robin Humble
1998-09-24 5:44 ` Robin Humble
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