Hi It worked:
So create all the nodes then:
mknod /dev/hda b 3 0
mknod /dev/hda1 b 3 1
mknod /dev/hda2 b 3 2
mknod /dev/hda3 b 3 3
mknod /dev/hda4 b 3 4
mknod /dev/hda5 b 3 5
mknod /dev/hda6 b 3 6
mknod /dev/hda7 b 3 7
mknod /dev/hda8 b 3 8
mknod /dev/hda9 b 3 9
mknod /dev/hdb b 3 0
mknod /dev/hdb1 b 3 1
mknod /dev/hdb2 b 3 2
mknod /dev/hdb3 b 3 3
mknod /dev/hdb4 b 3 4
mknod /dev/hdb5 b 3 5
mknod /dev/hdb6 b 3 6
mknod /dev/hdb7 b 3 7
mknod /dev/hdb8 b 3 8
mknod /dev/hdb9 b 3 9
Then run fdisk on /dev/hda, then run fdisk on /dev/hdb.
Your earlier email had no ... in it so I thought that I only had to
create the major nodes (thus the confusion I think).
Here is the fdisk script that worked!
fdisk /dev/hda <<!EOF
d
1
d
2
d
3
d
4
n
p
1
1
32
a
1
t
1
fd
n
p
2
33
797
t
2
fd
n
p
3
798
1434
t
3
fd
n
e
4
1435
24792
t
4
f
n
1435
1695
t
5
fd
n
1696
1822
t
6
fd
n
1823
24792
t
7
fd
w
q
!EOF
fdisk /dev/hdb <<!EOF
d
1
d
2
d
3
d
4
n
p
1
1
32
a
1
t
1
fd
n
p
2
33
797
t
2
fd
n
p
3
798
1434
t
3
fd
n
e
4
1435
24792
t
4
f
n
1435
1695
t
5
fd
n
1696
1822
t
6
fd
n
1823
24792
t
7
fd
w
q
!EOF
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:30, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Blair Lowe wrote:
>
> >I'm working on the mknod: the hda one succeeded, but my confusion is
> >that /dev/hda1 would be the first partition of the one drive, and hdb
> >would be the second ide drive, so why would you go:
> >
> >mknod /dev/hda1 b 3 1
> >
> >for hdb????
>
> Erm, that's creating hda1, not hdb. The "b" in the command above is
> short for "block", i.e. a block (not a character) device.
>
> Ignoring kickstart/anaconda, and just looking at my local RedHat system:
>
> $ ls -l /dev/hda{,1,2,3,4,5} /dev/hdb{,1,2,3,4,5}
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda2
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 3 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda3
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 4 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda4
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 5 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hda5
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 64 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 65 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb1
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 66 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb2
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 67 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb3
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 68 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb4
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 69 Feb 18 15:26 /dev/hdb5
>
> Those are the major and minor node numbers used by Linux; promise, I
> didn't make them up :)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>
>
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