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+<sect2>
+<title>Creating the /dev entries</title>
+
+<para>
+Create the device files by running the following commands:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+	<userinput>cd /dev &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+	<userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic</userinput>
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+<para>
+The <quote>generic</quote> parameter passed to the MAKEDEV script
+doesn't create all the devices you might need, such as audio devices,
+hdc, hdd and ohters. If you seem to be missing something tell MAKEDEV to
+create it. To create hdc replace generic with hdc. You can also add hdc
+to generic, so you would execute <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic
+hdc</userinput> to create the generic set of devices files, plus the
+files you need to be able to access hdc (and hdc1, hdc2, etc)
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Please note that this script dates back from 1997 and therefore can be
+outdated and not support newer hardware. If you need device files which
+aren't known by this script please read the Documentation/devices.txt
+file in a Linux source tree. This file lists all the major and minor
+numbers for all the device files that the kernel knows about. With this
+list you can create such device files yourself. See the mknod man page
+for more information on how to make device files yourself.
+</para>
+
+</sect2>
+