From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed Jun  7 01:21:24 1995
Return-Path: hackers-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA08033
          for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 01:21:24 -0700
Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34])
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA08024
          ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 01:21:18 -0700
Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA08422; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 18:19:28 +1000
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 18:19:28 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Message-Id: <199506070819.SAA08422@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Subject: Re: Install bug for big minor numbers
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org
Precedence: bulk

>>     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.

`MAKEDEV all' wouldn't fix the scsicntl devices because they aren't in
the `all' list.

Bruce