On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Rolf Obrecht wrote: > > Hello, > > Due to my impatience, I purged the old "base"-package after upgrading to > 1.3 (it was listed as "obsolete" in dselect) without looking at it's > contents first :-( > > Unfortunately, it contained all(?) device files in /dev; as a result, > the machine didn't boot anymore since it was "unable to open an initial > console". Booting from rescue disk, mounting the harddrive to /target and > extracting the previously (on a different machine) generated tar file > containing the device-files solved the problem, but: /dev/printer still > doesn't exist. > > Calling "MAKEDEV printer" only gives me "MAKEDEV: out of space for > devices". > Sounds like the disk if full.
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