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<sect2>
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<title>Creating devices</title>
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<para>Note: the MAKEDEV-&makedev-version;.bz2 file you have unpacked is not an archive, so it
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won't create a directory for you to cd into.</para>
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<para>Create the device files by running the following commands:</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>cp MAKEDEV-&makedev-version; /dev/MAKEDEV &&
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cd /dev &&
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chmod 754 MAKEDEV</userinput></screen></para>
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<para>Now, depending on whether you are going to use devpts or not, you
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can run one of two commands:</para>
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<para>If you do not intend to use devpts, run:</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic</userinput></screen></para>
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<para>If you do intend to use devpts, then run:</para>
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<para><screen><userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic-nopty</userinput></screen></para>
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<para>Note that if you aren't sure, it's best to use
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the <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic</userinput> command as this will
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ensure you have the devices you need. If you are sure you are going to
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use devpts however, the other command makes sure that you don't create a
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set of devices which you don't require.</para>
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<para>MAKEDEV will create hda[1-20] to hdh[1-20] and such but keep in mind
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that you may not be able to use all of those devices due to kernel
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limitations regarding the max. number of partitions.</para>
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</sect2>
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