That worked perfectly thank you very much

Gary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith McGavin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: device sr0


> On Thu, Jan 20, at 07:55:40PM, Gary Durey wrote:
> > In the /dev directory are files sr0, sr1 etc to sr15. 
> > How can I increase the number of these to sr42
> 
> Gary,
> 
> the /dev/MAKEDEV script only creates sr0-sr15 so you
> have to make /dev/sr16 - sr42 manually using the 'mknod'
> command. see man mknod for details.
> 
> as root in /dev-
> 
> 'mknod -m 660 sr16 b 11 16'
> 'mknod -m 660 sr17 b 11 17'
> ..........................
> ..........................
> 'mknod -m 660 sr43 b 11 43'
> 
> 
> hth,
> keith.
> 

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