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 > > > > -- > > John Hebert > > System Engineer > > I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -- > Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "...and one script to rule them all." > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
