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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 1995 09:15:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Quantum hardware errors (Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:87,0)
Message-ID:  <199506061615.JAA27694@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <4135.802421047@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 5, 95 11:44:07 pm

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> >     I thought the installer created device files on the fly rather
> > than extracting them from the bin tarball?
> 
> It does.. It uses MAKEDEV.  No device files (that I know of) are
> extracted using cpio.

Actually, thinking about it, yes we extrace a lot of devices from the
bindist :-(

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