mknod during install

[Jens Dreger]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:52:22AM -0500, John Heim wrote:
> I'm trying to make my machines come up talking via the linux screen reader 
> 'speakup'. To do that, I have to make a device file thusly:
> 
> # mknod /dev/softsynth c 10 26
> 
> 
> I cannot figure out how to do that during the FAI install. I know that 
> mknod is in my nfsroot. But putting that mknod command in a FAI script 
> doesn't seem to work.

Try:

  ${ROOTCMD} mknod /dev/softsynth c 10 26

The device node needs to be created on the root-filesystem of the
install client, not in the nfsroot.

HTH,

Jens.

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