%general-entities; ]> Create the initial device nodes mknod -m 600 /dev/console c 5 1 mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 Mount a ramfs in /dev mount -n -t ramfs none /dev Create a minimal set of device nodes: mknod -m 622 /dev/console c 5 1 mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 mknod -m 666 /dev/zero c 1 5 mknod -m 666 /dev/ptmx c 5 2 mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0 mknod -m 444 /dev/random c 1 8 mknod -m 444 /dev/urandom c 1 9 chown root:tty /dev/{console,ptmx,tty} Create some symlinks and directories: ln -s /proc/self/fd /dev/fd ln -s /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/stdin ln -s /proc/self/fd/1 /dev/stdout ln -s /proc/self/fd/2 /dev/stderr ln -s /proc/kcore /dev/core mkdir /dev/pts mkdir /dev/shm Mount the virtual file systems: mount -t devpts -o gid=4,mode=620 none /dev/pts mount -t tmpfs none /dev/shm