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[6370fa6]1<sect2>
[ef17d31]2<title>Creating devices</title>
[6370fa6]3
[4e138cb]4<para>
5Note: the MAKEDEV.bz2 file you have unpacked is not an archive, so it
6won't create a directory for you to cd into.
7</para>
8
[9a18ca03]9<para>
10Create the device files by running the following commands:
11</para>
12
13<blockquote><literallayout>
14
[f044f4c]15 <userinput>chmod 755 MAKEDEV &amp;&amp;</userinput>
16 <userinput>cp MAKEDEV /dev &amp;&amp;</userinput>
[9a18ca03]17 <userinput>cd /dev &amp;&amp;</userinput>
[3661105]18 <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic</userinput>
[9a18ca03]19
20</literallayout></blockquote>
21
22<para>
23The <quote>generic</quote> parameter passed to the MAKEDEV script
[81a47c0]24doesn't create all the devices a user might need, such as audio devices,
[549af1c]25hdc, hdd and others. If it seems something is missing MAKEDEV has to be told
[3661105]26to create it. To create hdc replace generic with hdc. A user can also add hdc
[81a47c0]27to generic, so he would execute <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic
[9a18ca03]28hdc</userinput> to create the generic set of devices files, plus the
[81a47c0]29files he needs to be able to access hdc (and hdc1, hdc2, etc)
[9a18ca03]30</para>
31
[364bc46]32<para>
[81a47c0]33MAKEDEV will create hda[1-20] and hdb[1-20] and such but he has to keep in mind
34that he may not be able to use all of those devices due to kernel
[364bc46]35limitations regarding the max. number of partitions.
36</para>
37
[6370fa6]38</sect2>
39
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