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Subject: Re: Quantum hardware errors (Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:87,0)
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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> >     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.

Actually, thinking about it, yes we extrace a lot of devices from the
bindist :-(

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