FreeBSD 5.4 chroot

[Kris Kennaway]

Mihai Donțu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and I need a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE 
> chroot to build something in it (hw shortage). All nice and dandy, until I 
> hit a /dev problem:
> 
> # svn up
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/project'
> svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/project': SSL negotiation failed: SSL disabled due to 
> lack of entropy (https://svn.host.com)
> 
> # ls -l /dev/random
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel  249,   0 Aug 25 16:19 /dev/random
> 
> # cat /dev/random
> cat: /dev/random: Socket operation on non-socket
> 
> # rm /dev/random
> 
> # mknod /dev/mknod random c 0 10 root:wheel
> 
> # chmod 0666 /dev/random
> 
> # ls -l /dev/random
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  10 Aug 25 18:28 /dev/random
> 
> # cat /dev/random
> cat: /dev/random: Socket operation on non-socket
> 
> Clearly, all those years of Linux chroot-ing have affected my brain, but 
> Google isn't very helpful either. :) Could someone, please, hint me about 
> what I'm doing wrong?

mount a devfs instance to create the devices (see mount_devfs) instead 
of trying to mknod them by hand.

Kris