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authorSamuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>2012-01-29 00:05:46 +0000
committerSamuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>2012-01-29 00:05:46 +0000
commitf6c176ad1ad5dcc6667f47689750f500ae78101f (patch)
treeb23d5c7fd6291624540c07bd1e761eebb2f3144e
parent8656ef7895e26338effb8bec879f22f9b4bd7815 (diff)
downloadinstallation-guide-f6c176ad1ad5dcc6667f47689750f500ae78101f.zip
Document that installing makedev is needed to get MAKEDEV.
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog2
-rw-r--r--en/appendix/chroot-install.xml4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9d7dec7ab..e8f724564 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ installation-guide (2011xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
and not "64 bit graphical install" too.
* Mention the 64bit variant installation options.
* Update chroot manual into using grub2.
+ * Document that installing makedev is needed to get MAKEDEV.
+ Closes: #620881, #656939.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Fix typo in example preseed. Closes: #612631
diff --git a/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml b/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml
index d302dd441..3a63fcf00 100644
--- a/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml
+++ b/en/appendix/chroot-install.xml
@@ -235,8 +235,10 @@ A few of the available options are:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
-create a default set of static device files using
+install the makedev package, and create a default set of static device files
+using (after chrooting)
<informalexample><screen>
+# apt-get install makedev
# cd /dev
# MAKEDEV generic
</screen></informalexample>