UDEV ? but how to ...

Question

I checked the howto, forum threads,.. but I just can not seem to have it running.
I have everything up to date with pacman (initscripts, udev, ...)
When I try to boot from the entry called ARCHNODEVFS which uses the line devfs=nomount, the system reboots endlessly with the note that it can not get an initial console
When I boot the the ARCH entry, the system boots correctly but I see the DEVFS is used.
I was trying to get the UDEV to work thinking that it will be better at handling the usb camera while it can be plugged and unplugged in the same session and it only works once. The other times, it appears under a new name into the /dev folder
Here are my config files:
FSTAB
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none                   /proc          proc      defaults                0      0
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults              0      0
none                   /dev/shm     tmpfs     defaults              0      0
tmpfs                  /tmp           tmpfs     defaults               0      0
#sysfs                 /sys             sysfs     defaults                0      0
usbfs                  /proc/bus/usb usbfs    defaults,devmod=0666 0      0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0     /mnt/cd       iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0      0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1     /mnt/dvd     iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0      0
/dev/floppy/0                /mnt/fl         vfat    user,noauto,unhide    0      0
/dev/discs/disc1/part3 /                ext3     defaults             0      1
/dev/discs/disc1/part1 /boot         ext2     defaults             0      1
/dev/discs/disc1/part2 swap          swap     defaults             0      0
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /mnt/windows  ntfs rw,user,umask=002,gid=100  0    0
/dev/discs/disc0/part5 /mnt/data        ntfs rw,user,umask=002,gid=100  0    0
/dev/sda1              /mnt/camera vfat rw,users,noauto,sync,umask=000  0 0
LILO.CONF
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boot=/dev/discs/disc0/disc
default=arch
timeout=50
lba32
prompt
bitmap=/boot/insight.bmp
bmp-colors=0,11,9,15,3,7
bmp-table=250p,150p,1,18
bmp-timer=250p,350p,3,8,1
image=/boot/vmlinuz26
        label=arch
        root=/dev/discs/disc1/part3
        read-only
other=/dev/discs/disc0/part1
        label=WinXP
image=/boot/vmlinuz26
        label=archNoDvFs
        root=/dev/discs/disc1/part3
append="devfs=nomount"
        read-only
RC.CONF
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MODULES=(!usbserial !ide-scsi ppp_generic e1000 soundcore snd_ac97_codec snd-intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss ltmodem ltserial visor)
DAEMONS=(syslogd klogd hotplug !pcmcia network netfs crond alsamixer cups adsl autofs firestarter apcups)
RC.LOCAL
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mkdir /tmp/.ICE-unix
chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix
mknod /dev/usb/scanner0 c 180 48
chmod 0666 /dev/usb/scanner0
Some of the lines in the filesI have written without really knowing what I was doing, trying to get things to work and cloning what I found on the net.
My machine is dualboot with:
XP (two partitions on a disk,window$ system and personal data)
and Arch (two partitions, boot and root on a separate disk from window$)

Answer 1

I almost asked you what was the name of the script, ouff... just to show you how much I know
I checked it. I tried to run the lines as root. It did not work. But the RM lines did not give an error message. Then the mknod did give an error as the rm did not work (...already exist)
The script shows lines like: "rm -f dev/console"
I am no expert but, when I tried that both from "/" and from "/dev", the files where not removed.
I replaced it with lines like" rm -f /dev/console" and those worked.
Same thing with the "mknod dev/console c 5 1" which I replace with "mknod /dev/console c 5 1"
and those worked
Should there be a "/" in front of the dev to give the correct reference?
Or is it the "cd $TMPDIR" that should make it work. I do not know what is this path but I do not understand how it can work.
I added all the "/" and the script worked correctly and created the third device called zero which I did not do previously. Then again I was under UDEV, I do not know if it would have worked under DEVFS. I will try and report here.
ADDITION: Under devfs, the rm operation is not allowed and similar for the mknod, files already exist. So this is why the migrate script did not create the needed device nodes I suppose. They where set by devfs at boot and they could not be changed