%general-entities; ]> /dev/* chroot Mount the proper virtual (kernel) file systems on the newly-created directories: mount -vt devpts -o gid=&gid-tty;,mode=620 none /dev/pts mount -vt tmpfs none /dev/shm The mount commands executed above may result in the following warning message: can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory. This file—/etc/fstab—has not been created yet, but is also not required for the file systems to be properly mounted. The warning can be safely ignored.