diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.sgml b/chapter01/changelog.sgml
index 5a5d16aff..46f86497c 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.sgml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.sgml
@@ -22,6 +22,18 @@ Chapter 5: Added static mawk, texinfo and partially gettext to faciliate
 the move of Glibc from Chapter 5 to Chapter 6.
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>
+Chapter 5: Added Makedev to chapter 5. We don't create the device files
+here, only copy the MAKEDEV script and make a temp copy which will be
+used to create device files. This second file (MAKEDEV-temp) doesn't
+contain user names and group names but only user id's and group id's. We
+need a few device files to get Glibc installed, but before GLibc is
+installed user and group names are not recognized yet; only the numeric
+id's. This requires a slightly modified MAKEDEV script which will be
+generated by patching the original one. This patching is done here in
+chapter 5.
+</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>
 Chapter 5+6: Added the fileutils-4.0 patch which is needed to compile
 the fileutils package on Glibc-2.2 based systems (such as the upcoming
diff --git a/chapter05/makedev-inst.sgml b/chapter05/makedev-inst.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6555d3db2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chapter05/makedev-inst.sgml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<sect2>
+<title>Installation of MAKEDEV</title>
+
+<para>
+Install MAKEDEV by running the following commands:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+	<userinput>sed "s/# 9/9/" MAKEDEV &gt;$LFS/dev/MAKEDEV
+		&amp;&amp;</userinput>
+	<userinput>chmod 754 $LFS/dev/MAKEDEV &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+	<userinput>cp $LFS/dev/MAKEDEV $LFS/dev/MAKEDEV-temp
+		&amp;&amp;</userinput>
+	<userinput>cd $LFS/dev &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+	<userinput>patch -Ni $LFS/usr/src/MAKEDEV-2.5.patch</userinput>
+
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+<para>
+The actual creation of the device files in $LFS/dev will be taken care
+of in chapter 6.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
diff --git a/chapter05/makedev.sgml b/chapter05/makedev.sgml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c567fe4c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chapter05/makedev.sgml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<sect1 id="ch05-makedev">
+<title>Installing Makedev</title>
+
+&c5-pp-makedev-inst;
+&aa-makedev-desc;
+
+</sect1>
+