Sorry, you're absolutely right, mounted is correct, poor terminology on my part. Yup, was going to wait till the RC as you suggested unless there was an easy peasy way round it but alas there seems not to be. Thanks anyway.
Cheers, Jason Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:18:16 +1200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Ok, maybe this is a dumb question but here goes.... >> >>If one is running the dev filesystem is it possible to "upgrade" these >> >>RPM's without using the installer?? I am under the impression that dev >> >>gets loaded fairly early on and it becomes a real pain to upgrade >>these as a result. > > > More that /dev is mounted rather than that dev is loaded. > You can boot with devfs=nomount. > > That being said there has been a change in the way dev/MAKEDEV install > and call since the B3 release which was done to allow for the upgrade of > these pkgs Even when /devs is mounted and devfsd is running. > Because of this upgrading from the old to the new can be problematic. > On 2 of my systems running current cooker the dev MAKEDEV upgrades > caused difficulties when rebooting requiring that 'rescue' mode be used > and I still had a hell of a time getting the systems back to where they > would boot even near normally. > > My recommendation would be to add dev and MAKEDEV to your skip.list and > use the RC installer to upgrade then when it is released the end of this > week/first of next week. > > > Charles > > -------------- > Put your best foot forward. Or just call in and say you're sick. > ---------------------- > Charles A Edwards > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------- > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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