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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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  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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