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To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
cc: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>,
        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Install bug for big minor numbers 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 95 02:30:08 +0800."
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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 17:31:31 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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>     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?

Nope!  If you look at sysinstall/install.c, you'll see that
it does the distExtractAll() and THEN does the MAKEDEVs.

The only possible flaw was that it only did the MAKEDEVs once (not a
bad idea, since it's expensive!).  This could have possible caused
problems if you went _back_ to the Distributions menu and loaded the
bindist again.

I've put in a check for this case and will roll it into the BETA,
which I still haven't released.

					Jordan