ray wrote:
> Ok, I'm confused.
>
> I've got a mix of Slack 9.x/10.x boxes, kernels 2.4.22-.28.
> All are "default" kernels - I've been too chicken/lazy/busy to play with
> 2.6 kernels and stuff.
>
> Which /dev structure am I running? (Install all packages in the
> standard load... nothing from /extra or /testing.)
>
> From what I've been reading udev and devfs are for dynamic devices (and
> other new tricks...) - I don't believe I'm running that. What am I
> running?
>
> What got me curious was a co-worker installed Linspire and fdisk -l
> doesn't give /dev/hda instead it gave us /dev/ide/bus0/part1 or
> something like that...
>
> Ray


The default Slackware installation does not use devfs nor udev. udev can
only run on a 2.6 kernel. The name /dev/hda or /dev/ide/bus0/... are
setting due to the distribution. What is important is the major minor
mode that you can see with ls -l. Linspire probably use udev (as many
other distro) and I think is just a configuration of udev (the file
responsible for that are in /etc/udev/...

Olive