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Re: [Question #76765]: MAKEDEV does not make hard disk devices in Unix Cross Install

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From: Phillip Susi <question76765@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:17:29 -0000
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Question #76765 on installation-guide in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/installation-guide/+question/76765

Phillip Susi posted a new comment:
Yea, MAKEDEV is now obsolete and /dev should be basically empty.  At
boot time /dev is mounted as a tmpfs and populated with dev nods by udev
for the hardware actually installed as it is detected.  If you want to
chroot into a hard disk from the livecd to manipulate it, you want to
bind mount the /dev on the hard disk to your real /dev as Colin said...
docs should be updated.

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