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paraflu

Member

Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 53

[solved] Is /bin/mknod still included in kernel26.img

Hello,

everybody

I`ve got a problem.
In this topic:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49200&p=2

Larch has the problem that if i larchify an existing system
it does not include /bin/mknod in the larch.img, but if i
mklarch a system, it does.
After examine my now used system`s kernel26.img, mknod isn`t there,
even in the fallback image.
My hooks are:
HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide scsi sata filesystems"
just in case if you like to know it.

Has anything changed or is my system not ok?
To examine your kernel26.img
use
cd /boot/
gunzip -dc kernel26.img >kernel26.dec.img
and open kernel26.dec.img with archive-manager of gnome.

Greetings
and thanks for your answers

Last edited by paraflu (2008-11-13 19:28:30)

gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: [solved] Is /bin/mknod still included in kernel26.img

I think there's probably something a bit strange about your system. I just did a completely up to the minute fresh install of a minimal Arch and had a look in the initcpio file, /bin/mknod was in there. It comes from the klibc package, which means that you will find it at /usr/lib/klibc/bin/mknod on your system. All of the klibc stuff gets copied over to the initcpio by mkinitcpio.

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paraflu

Member

Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 53

Re: [solved] Is /bin/mknod still included in kernel26.img

Thanks for the reply.

I looked into /usr/lib/klibc/bin/  mknod wasn`t there,
so i pacman -S klibc
reinstalling
Looked again it is there!

Did the same with the system in the vm (qemu).
Not there.
reinstalling
It`s there.

Thanks.
But what i don`t understand is, that they are totally
different systems.
Downloading the same iso 2008.06 again and will do a new install
in the vm.
????????
Oh by the way do you know how to reinstall all packages of
the system, because i should do this now?

So solved. Don`t know what happened before (2 different systems) , but it`s ok.
Thank you a lot.

Edit:
"Oh by the way do you know how to reinstall all packages of
the system, because i should do this now?"
found it in the wiki.

Last edited by paraflu (2008-11-13 19:46:20)