devfsd problem

[George Mochrie]

hi

I have a couple of boxes which are low on ram and have no cdrom, as you can 
imagine i don't really want to build lunar on them but i do want to run lunar 
on them. 

Using the slackware boot floppies and nfs i copied the filesystems from a 
(hardware compatible) box using cp -a onto a freshly formatted partition. 
Then i used the gemini floppies to chroot and run lilo. there were a couple 
of problems i have since fixed but there is a big one i haven't. devfs 
doesn't mount on boot and devfds doesn't run on boot. /etc/init.d/devfs start 
doesn't work (restart does) but there is a note saying it's started from the 
mount script.

i have the box booting now by passing devfs=mount to the kernel at the lilo 
prompt and i changed the tty* in /etc/inittab to vc/* (shouldn't it be like 
that by default?), but there's obviously something wrong here.

any help would be greatly appreciated
-- 
George Mochrie
aka Drasil
ICQ# 84423409