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| author | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-08-15 20:36:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-08-15 20:36:23 +0000 |
| commit | 4735209374be4a021b4ce6e7451c6ee58426d521 (patch) | |
| tree | 250fa6a7836c248fddfa991a6430ab545fb66b03 /chapter06/createfiles.xml | |
| parent | 63d5562d8cb76477eedc777334ab47fde216719d (diff) | |
move makedev to before glibc and remove manual /dev/null creation
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2058 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/createfiles.xml b/chapter06/createfiles.xml index ac3076c7a..8c4b76b2d 100644 --- a/chapter06/createfiles.xml +++ b/chapter06/createfiles.xml @@ -1,17 +1,15 @@ <sect1 id="ch06-createfiles"> -<title>Creating a few missing files</title> +<title>Creating the /bin/sh symlink</title> <?dbhtml filename="createfiles.html" dir="chapter06"?> -<para>A few files need to be created because programs hard-wire paths -that don't exist yet. The most frequently ones used are -<filename>/bin/sh</filename> and <filename>/dev/null</filename> so we'll be -creating those for the time being and replace them properly when the file's -package is (re)installed.</para> +<para>Some programs hard-wire paths that don't exist yet. The only one +which may cause us trouble is <filename>/bin/sh</filename>. +We therefore create this for the time being and replace it +properly when the bash package is (re)installed.</para> -<para>Create the files by running the following commands:</para> +<para>Create the /bin/sh symlink by running the following commands:</para> -<para><screen><userinput>ln -s /static/bin/bash /bin/sh && -mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3</userinput></screen></para> +<para><screen><userinput>ln -s /static/bin/bash /bin/sh</userinput></screen></para> </sect1> |