Comment 7 for bug 96731

Please don't close bugs just because they refer to a version of Ubuntu that's no longer supported. I'm reopening it on principle.

The current documentation refers to MAKEDEV, which was in fact part of the original reporter's request; this was added in hardy:

revno: 389.1.2447
committer: fjp
timestamp: Sun 2007-10-21 13:22:07 +0000
message:
  Updates to appendix on chroot installs:
  - add disclaimer: the appendix only covers the basic steps needed to install a system
  - add a section with some basic instructions about creating device files
  - add an 'initrd=' line to the example lilo.conf

  Thanks to Igor Stirbu for noting the issue with missing device files and grub installation.

I think this is actually probably adequate to close the bug. I know that often bind-mounting is more suitable, but it's not absolutely necessary and running MAKEDEV is sufficient to get something basic going with minimal fuss. Phillip, perhaps the point about recommending mount --bind should be a separate bug, and this one should be closed, but as Fix Released rather than as Invalid?