From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 6 11:31:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA01202 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:31:21 -0700 Received: from leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.249]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA01192 ; Tue, 6 Jun 1995 11:31:05 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA07324; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:30:09 +0800 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 02:30:08 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: "Steven G. Kargl" cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install bug for big minor numbers In-Reply-To: <199506061731.KAA21212@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Jun 1995, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > > According to Peter Dufault: > > > > Brian: can you think of anything you did that may have broken things? > > Bruce mentioned that "tar" loses on this. Does anyone else have broken > > control entries for the SCSI devices? Nope... I didn't get a chance to, not being able to bring up a shell during the installation process to effect any changes. :( I didn't have time tonight to go through the installation process again though (and it's almost 2:30 am again... *sigh*). > This is from a 2.0.5-ALPHA installation on Sunday (6-4-95). > > > troutmask[9] rm rsd0.ctl > troutmask[10] sh MAKEDEV sd0 > troutmask[11] !ll > ll rsd*.ctl > crw------- 1 root wheel 13, 536870912 Jun 6 10:30 rsd0.ctl > crw------- 1 root wheel 13, 8 May 29 05:48 rsd1.ctl > crw------- 1 root wheel 13, 16 May 29 05:48 rsd2.ctl > crw------- 1 root wheel 13, 24 May 29 05:48 rsd3.ctl Hmmmm... so something in the installer is futzing up the minor numbers. Jordan, are you sure the installer isn't running MAKEDEV, *then* untarring bogus /dev entries from a tarball on top of the ones already created? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org