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To: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: About the MAKEDEV script 
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In message <20020105133807.25689.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com>, Hiten Pandya w
rites:
>hi all,
>
>is it true, that the MAKEDEV script only appears if
>the DEVFS option in the kernel is not enabled, or I
>am talking nuts..?

if DEVFS is in the kernel, it mounts over /dev and
consequently you cannot see the MAKEDEV script.

/dev/MAKEDEV should have lived in /etc from the
beginning anyway...

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