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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/createfiles.xml | 16 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/chapter06.xml b/chapter06/chapter06.xml index 89486d4d6..c34dff689 100644 --- a/chapter06/chapter06.xml +++ b/chapter06/chapter06.xml @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ &c6-mtablink; &c6-mountproc; &c6-createfiles; +&c6-makedev; &c6-kernel; &c6-glibc; -&c6-makedev; &c6-gcc; &c6-zlib; &c6-manpages; 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> |