Jon Nelson on 19 Dec 2005 21:01:12 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] initrd/udev hell


Jon Nelson said:
> I booted to knoppix and:
>
>     # mount /mnt/hda1
>     # chroot /mnt/hda1
>     # mount /proc
>
> When I tried to uninstall/install anything I would get 'permission denied'
> errors in regards to '/dev/null'.  This causes (I think) the postinstall
> scripts to fail and the packages aren't configured.

Doh!  Google to rescue!  Following the info here:

    http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Dev_null_permission_denied

I mounted my hda1 w/o 'nodev' and the packages finished installing and the
system rebooted.

Woohoo!  Thanks again Sean!

Jon


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