On 2009-01-21, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote: > I noticed the same thing in the install I did a few days ago. > Later in that install grub failed to install and after > rebooting, my /dev directory was missing just about everything. > > Here's the /dev directory in the chroot'ed environment I got > using stage3-i686-20090114.tar.bz2: > > livecd linux # ls -l /dev > total 12 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan 20 21:30 MAKEDEV -> ../sbin/MAKEDEV > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75 Jan 20 21:49 null > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 19:29 pts > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 19:29 shm
It looks like stage3-i686-20090114.tar.bz2 is broken. The stage3 tar files for the previous two weeks are missing (the DIGEST and CONTENTS files are on the mirrors, but no tar.bz2). stage3-i686-20081224.tar.bz2 seems to have the proper /dev entries. > I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional > installation step to populate the /dev directory when using > recent stage3 snapshots? I guess the additional step is to not use a broken stage3 tarball. -- Grant
