From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 23:44:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA04143 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 23:44:09 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA04136 ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 23:44:08 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Brian Tao cc: Bruce Evans , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quantum hardware errors (Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:87,0) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jun 95 14:24:51 +0800." Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 23:44:07 -0700 Message-ID: <4135.802421047@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I thought the installer created device files on the fly rather > than extracting them from the bin tarball? It does.. It uses MAKEDEV. No device files (that I know of) are extracted using cpio. Jordan