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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 15:39:25 -0800
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
From: Ken Ingram <kingram@ipro.com>
Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping
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The problem is I have to search through a few different things much like
'92 when folks only had man pages. I literally don't know where to begin.
Hence my earlier rant about 'cross referencing'.

I apologize for being a bit jerkish.



At 10:54 PM 1/9/97 +0100, J Wunsch wrote:
>As Ken Ingram wrote:
>
>> I'm still running into problems getting the bloody thing mounted.
>> This is a listing of what the system is aware of and why:
>> 
>> ***** Error message after typing 'newfs /dev/wd2s1e'
>> newfs: /dev/wd2s1e: No such file or directory
>
>You still bloody failed to read the bloody FAQ (to clone your speach).
>
>``Depending on the disk name and slice number, it might be required
>that you run the script /dev/MAKEDEV before in order to create the
>desired device nodes.''
>
>Yes, that's from 2.15, the section you've been bashing on.
>
>Feel free to help us getting DEVFS into the state where it can be
>enabled by default.  This will render the above step no longer
>required.  Until it's done, you still need to mknod(8) your device
>nodes, as other people before you used to do it for 25 years now.
>
>-- 
>cheers, J"org
>
>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
>
>

--Ken
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