[linux-dvb] Re: Linuxdvb on small Linux

[Jason Lixfeld <jason+lists.linux-dvb@lixfeld.ca>]

Your 'truly-minimal' configuration is probably lacking devfs and sysfs 
support in your kernel.  Check the kernel options (if they exist on a 
minimal configuration) and see if you can tweak them.

On Jun 28, 2004, at 8:50 AM, Irek Defée wrote:

> Has anybody tried to run linuxdvb drivers on a small Linux 
> distribution?
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> Running on a very small harddisk or compact flash card?
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> What we tried is:
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> Mandrake Linux 9.2 is installed in the “truly-minimal” configuration 
> mode, we
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>  managed to get it on a 210 MB harddisk partition, with system 
> occupying 89 MB.
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> The we tried to install drivers compiled on another machine with the 
> same Linux.
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> That looks OK but entries in /dev are not created and in the end 
> nothing works but also
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> there are no message errors. Anybody has hints what is done wrong?
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