Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 18:19:28 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Subject: Re: Install bug for big minor numbers Message-ID: <199506070819.SAA08422@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Hmmmm... so something in the installer is futzing up the minor >> numbers. Jordan, are you sure the installer isn't running MAKEDEV, >> *then* untarring bogus /dev entries from a tarball on top of the ones >> already created? >Nope! If you look at sysinstall/install.c, you'll see that >it does the distExtractAll() and THEN does the MAKEDEVs. `MAKEDEV all' wouldn't fix the scsicntl devices because they aren't in the `all' list. Bruce
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