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1<sect2>
2<title>Creating devices</title>
3
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
9<para>
10Create the device files by running the following commands:
11</para>
12
13<blockquote><literallayout>
14
15 <userinput>chmod 755 MAKEDEV &amp;&amp;</userinput>
16 <userinput>cp MAKEDEV /dev &amp;&amp;</userinput>
17 <userinput>cd /dev &amp;&amp;</userinput>
18 <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic</userinput>
19
20</literallayout></blockquote>
21
22<para>
23The <quote>generic</quote> parameter passed to the MAKEDEV script
24doesn't create all the devices a user might need, such as audio devices,
25hdc, hdd and others. If it seems something is missing MAKEDEV has to be told
26to create it. To create hdc replace generic with hdc. A user can also add hdc
27to generic, so he would execute <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic
28hdc</userinput> to create the generic set of devices files, plus the
29files he needs to be able to access hdc (and hdc1, hdc2, etc)
30</para>
31
32<para>
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
35limitations regarding the max. number of partitions.
36</para>
37
38</sect2>
39
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