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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> You can't put device nodes on an MSDOS filesystem - you would need 
> DEVFS for this to work.

Sounds like a good reason to test devfs.

options		DEVFS

boot -sv
mount -t devfs /dev /dev

If it works then add ...

options		SLICE


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