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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:27:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        FredBriand <fredbriand@blueboxstudio.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: where is MAKEDEV
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030127152704.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E35932C.1070909@blueboxstudio.net>

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On 27-Jan-2003 FredBriand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to FreeBSD and I'm busy installing it on a notebook. Up to now
> everything seems OK, but my sound card. In the handbook they say I must
> use the MAKEDEV script (as in Linux) but I can't find it on my disk.
> I tried to download it with the sysinstall tool but again there seems to
> be no package available.
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> Please help. fred.

If you have installed 5.0, then you are using devfs which means that
you don't need MAKEDEV.  Devices appear in /dev automatically.

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