Packaging a Debian System on RedHat

[David Bear]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:04:40PM -0600, Supriya Sriraman wrote:
> No, I am trying to build a debian devices tree that works for a embedded
> system that has debian (version 2.4.16) on a RedHat machine . I have done
> this on a debian machine before (that was simple, because it already had the
> debian devices tree).
> 
> For instance Redhat does not have:
> /dev/hda
> /dev/hda1
> /dev/hda2
> ....
> 
> I tried something else a couple of days ago, which did not work either.
> I made /dev1/dev to simulate /dev and created devices under there.

I think you need to look at udev. There was a recent post about this.
RedHat dynamically builds the /dev tree based on actual hardware
detect rather than just having a tone of dev nodes precreated.

this might help:

http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/udev/


> 
> But, now I this command fails:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev1/dev/ram1 bs=1024 count=93750
> 
> Error:
> 
> dd: writing `/dev1/dev/ram1': No space left on device
> 
> 16385+0 records in
> 16384+0 records out
> 
> $ df -h /dev
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> -                     8.0G  152K  8.0G   1% /dev
> $ df -h /dev1
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                       49G  6.4G   40G  14% /
> $ df -k /dev
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> -                      8287176       152   8287024   1% /dev
> $ df -k /dev1
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                      50412228   6664212  41187200  14% /
> $ df -i /dev
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> -                     195044     246  194798    1% /dev
> $ df -i /dev1
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                     6406144  182281 6223863    3% /
> Is it because of dev1's filesystem, or where it is mounted?
> 
> How can I create a debian devices tree?
> 
> Thanks,
> Supriya
> 
> n 1/8/07, Rilindo Foster <webmaster at monzell.com> wrote:
> 
> >I am not sure if I got your question right - do you want to implement
> >apt-get on Red Hat OS?
> >
> >On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Supriya Sriraman wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Does anyone know how I can package a debian system (/dev et cetera) on
> >> RedHat OS?
> >> I need to package for a system that is running embedded debian.
> >>
> >> If you don't know but know of a mailing list that addresses this,
> >> please let
> >> me know.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Supriya
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