Re: [linuxdc-dev]Busybox behaviour

[M. R. B. <mr...@0x...>]

* Adrian McMenamin <ad...@mc...> on Mon, Dec 31, 2001:

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> I have successfully mounted busybox as NFS root, but when I attempt to ru=
n=20
> other applications I get messages such as:
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> "./mpg123: No such file or directory"
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> Is this because there is a library missing or is there some other problem=
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> with bb I am unaware of?
>

Do you have glibc installed in your NFS root environment?  Is busybox
statically-linked?

> I am using ASH as the shell.
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> Finally - another question:
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> On m17n using devfs I could do things like cat somefile > /dev/dsp
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> But bb (again using devfs) insists on me writing cat somefile > /dev/soun=
d/dsp
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> Why?
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The first is because the m17n distro created/maintained legacy device nodes
(/dev/dsp).  You would have to manually create /dev/dsp and others if you
*didn't* want to use devfs with busybox.

M. R.