> >
> > crw------- 10 0 4, 0 May 5 1998 console
> > crw------- 1 500 100 4, 0 May 5 1998 tty0
> > crw----w--- 1 500 5 4, 1 Feb 5 21:08 tty1
>
> If these are from your H/D then i dont think they are correct. The biggest
> mistake a lot of people make when booting from a rescue disk is that after
> mounting thier H/D then the need to add the mountpoint before the directory
> becomes of imense importance, you said, "in short the /dev directory looks"
> which gives me an indication that you did not type "/mnt/dev" and are
> reading the files from the /dev directory on the floppy.
>
Sorry I did it that way to avoid confusion.
> If they are from your H/D then i rather think the first number is incorrect
> for the console entry.
A bit of a typo the actual entry is
crw------- 1 0 0 4, 0 May 5 1998 console
Not 10 - SORRY
> crw------- 2 root tty 4, 0 Feb 2 14:36 /dev/console
Are you saying that this entry is more realistic, and I can assume mine
is incorrect or corrupted and therefore the probable cause of my
problem. Or am I still up a creek without a paddle.
If so then a makedev should fix the problem??.
>
> I dont know the exacht number substitutions, but i have never seen a
> /dev/console device with anything more than "2"
> Also the second number looks fishy, a "0" ??
> Of course i could be wrong.
>
> >
> > this seemed quite proper to me.
>
> Not to me, but then i am "not" always correct in my assumptions.
>
> >
>
> --
> Regards Richard.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
