Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 17:31:31 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> 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 Message-ID: <22877.802485091@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 95 02:30:08 %2B0800." <Pine.BSI.3.91.950607022546.3207R-100000@leo>
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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
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