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To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
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Subject: Re: Install bug for big minor numbers 
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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 17:11:54 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> 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?

Since the pre-BETA tarballs would only run the MAKEDEV the _first_
time the bindist was extracted (which is fixed), did you perhaps
install the bin installation multiple times before rebooting?  That
would solve this mystery!

					Jordan