make clean

4 minutes left

and without some seriously creative work at screwing myself, i think i can safely say today was a good day.

a few of the reasons:
getting gigabit-ethernet working on my home network
getting sushi
getting to hang out with a bunch of people i don't see often enough
getting cervantes up and running under udev

the last point may not seem like a big deal to many of you - if you've installed linux in the last few years (and you're not a debian user), you probably run udev and never even had to worry about it.

this was not the case for cervantes.

cervantes has been so stable under devfs that i pushed very hard to resist change. looking at logs, i apparently lasted installed gentoo on that box in '02. devfs was supported in-kernel until 2.6.11, and under hardened sources, that's not _too_ far back.

finally went ahead and took the dive, this evening, though. i don't know what prompted me. the risk was fairly high - cervantes doubles as my router, and the last time i tried switching a box from devfs to udev, it was down for 2 days, and about a week later, i gave up trying to find all the bugs and reinstalled the os.

cervantes took to it far more easily. the following commands were issued:
emerge -C devfsd
emerge -av udev
emerge -av hotplug coldplug
rc-update add coldplug boot
(double-check to make sure my naming conventions aren't going to screw me [i.e. in fstab, lilo.conf])
reboot

...and magically, everything appears to be working (i'd upgraded to a 2.6.14 kernel earlier, which wasn't working entirely under devfs, despite my best attempts).

having taking longer than 4 minutes to write this post, i can safely call that day successful :)

posted by toasty @ 3/11/2006 10:56:00 PM