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30 lines
700 B
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<sect2>
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<title>Creating devices</title>
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<para>
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Note: the MAKEDEV.bz2 file you have unpacked is not an archive, so it
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won't create a directory for you to cd into.
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</para>
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<para>
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Create the device files by running the following commands:
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</para>
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<para>
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<screen>
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<userinput>cp MAKEDEV-1.1 /dev/MAKEDEV &&</userinput>
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<userinput>cd /dev &&</userinput>
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<userinput>chmod 755 MAKEDEV &&</userinput>
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<userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic</userinput>
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</screen>
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</para>
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<para>
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MAKEDEV will create hda[1-20] and hdb[1-20] and such but keep in mind
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that you may not be able to use all of those devices due to kernel
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limitations regarding the max. number of partitions.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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