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Date:      Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:51:19 -0400
From:      Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No MAKEDEV?
Message-ID:  <20010416155119.A14159@peitho.fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <3ADB49AA.FED31D9C@hotmail.com>; from wa1ter@hotmail.com on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:36:10PM -0700
References:  <3ADB49AA.FED31D9C@hotmail.com>

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On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:36:10PM -0700, walt wrote:
> I just upgraded a fresh install of 4.2 to CURRENT.  Everything
> seemed to go great until I discovered that I have only a small
> subset of the standard entries in /dev and there is no
> /dev/MAKEDEV or /dev/MAKEDEV.local.
>=20
> I re-cvsup'd again this morning and repeated the entire
> makeworld makekernel installkernel installworld mergemaster
> cycle a second time.
>=20
> It all went great except that I still have no MAKEDEV in /dev
> and very few entries in /dev, all of which are dated today.
>=20

devfs(5)

> I've tried using 'install' to move /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV into
> /dev, and tried cp and mv and even did a 'make distribution'
> from /usr/src/etc and always get an 'operation not supported'
> error message.
>=20
> I did all these things in single-user mode, BTW.
>=20
> Second question:  what is the status of /stand/sysinstall?
> I see that the new version is in /usr/sbin.  Is the old
> location obsolete?
>=20

See /usr/src/UPDATING for all the answers :)

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Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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