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Date:      Mon, 10 Aug 1998 08:56:24 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: questions about DEVFS 
Message-ID:  <199808101556.IAA12351@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:53:51 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980810095005.12997A-100000@bright.ny.otec.com> 

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> 
> heh, the man page for devfs is quite terse but i tried it anyhow.
> 
> options DEVFS
> options SLICE
> 
> problems i had:
> 
> my scsi disk is detected however no DEVFS entry is made. (my boot disk is
> an IDE drive)

You need to look at the noise that SLICE makes when you're booting to 
see why it didn't find anything.

> i don't think my sound device was found.

Hassle Luigi about that; I don't think he's playing the DEVFA game yet.

> questions:
> 
> how can i make symlinks in it? ( i really didn't try yet, but i'd like to
> have /dev/mouse -> /dev/cuaa0 and whatnot ) 

'ln -s'

> is devfs considered stable? it doesn't seem that usable in it's current
> state, but i'm assuming it's operator error ;)

Works fine here, and for lots of other people.

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