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  From: Mike Earnshaw <mearnshaw@bigpond.com>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:02:59 +0930

Bootdisk in RH6

List,

Over the weekend I was trying to follow the Bootdisk-HOWTO (rather than use
the image supplied in RH) and I stumbled on a few things, through lack of
knowledge in Linux. Would someone please mind leading a blind fool along?

In the section regarding the /dev I used the cpio program to copy the /dev
of the system into a 'new' directory. I was amazed at the number of devices
there are. From the HOWTO it says you can delete the SCSI block devices if
your system does not have them to preserve 'inodes'.

Two things occured to me here:

1. What is/are 'inodes' (are they similar to directory entries in FAT?,
where you can only have 512 entries in a root partition)
2. With the 'character devices', what is/are the ones I must have on a
repair disk?

I didn't get much further than that at this stage due to kids wanting
attention etc,

TIA, Mike

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