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<sect2>
<title>Creating devices</title>
-<para>Note: the MAKEDEV-&makedev-version;.bz2 file you have unpacked is not an archive, so it
-won't create a directory for you to cd into.</para>
+<para>Note: the MAKEDEV-&makedev-version;.bz2 file you have unpacked is not
+an archive, so it won't create a directory for you to cd into.</para>
<para>Create the device files by running the following commands:</para>
-<para><screen><userinput>ln -s /static/bin/bash /bin/bash &amp;&amp;
-cp MAKEDEV-&makedev-version; /dev/MAKEDEV &amp;&amp;
+<para><screen><userinput>cp MAKEDEV-&makedev-version; /dev/MAKEDEV &amp;&amp;
cd /dev &amp;&amp;
chmod 754 MAKEDEV</userinput></screen></para>
@@ -15,12 +14,10 @@ chmod 754 MAKEDEV</userinput></screen></para>
can run one of two commands:</para>
<para>If you do not intend to use devpts, run:</para>
-<para><screen><userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic &amp;&amp;
-rm /bin/bash</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic</userinput></screen></para>
<para>If you do intend to use devpts, then run:</para>
-<para><screen><userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic-nopty &amp;&amp;
-rm /bin/bash</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic-nopty</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Note that if you aren't sure, it's best to use
the <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic</userinput> command as this will