thats why i run linux... i hate devfs. its annoyin and its buggy with
joystick support so watch out!

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 09:53, Scott Harney wrote:
> John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> FreeBSD 5.0 uses devfs by default and therefore has no MAKEDEV.
> So for some reason your floppy drive isn't be automatically recognized.
> Perhaps dmesg holds clue
> 
> > There is a /dev/MAKEDEV in OpenBSD, and googling around for "makedev
> > freebsd" returns results that make me think it is supposed to be
> > there. Was it possibly deleted?
> >
> > BTW: I love this list. I didn't know much about MAKEDEV and mknod
> > until reading the exchange between Mat and Abbott. A quick trip to man
> > and info pages and now I understand what MAKEDEV is (a script that
> > calls mknod to build special files, like for hardware devices such as
> > floppy drives).
> >
> > Mat, thanks for asking that. Abbott, thanks for being a smartass. ;)
> >
> > Thanks be to Xenu for free software!!!
> >
> > John
> >
> > On 12 Feb 2003 20:28:09 -0600, Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> yes, but why would there be no /dev/MAKEDEV??
> >>
> >> --mat
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 19:55, Abbott Mujica wrote:
> >>> lol makedev... you newb... man mknod and also read the devices tab in
> >>> bsd... its all well documented mah man
> >
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