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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/makedev-inst.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml b/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml index c3f6bee1b..9a5615c6d 100644 --- a/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml @@ -18,18 +18,8 @@ Create the device files by running the following commands: </literallayout></blockquote> <para> -The <quote>generic</quote> parameter passed to the MAKEDEV script -doesn't create all the devices a user might need, such as audio devices, -hdc, hdd and others. If it seems something is missing MAKEDEV has to be told -to create it. To create hdc replace generic with hdc. A user can also add hdc -to generic, so he would execute <userinput>./MAKEDEV -v generic -hdc</userinput> to create the generic set of devices files, plus the -files he needs to be able to access hdc (and hdc1, hdc2, etc) -</para> - -<para> -MAKEDEV will create hda[1-20] and hdb[1-20] and such but he has to keep in mind -that he may not be able to use all of those devices due to kernel +MAKEDEV will create hda[1-20] and hdb[1-20] and such but keep in mind +that you may not be able to use all of those devices due to kernel limitations regarding the max. number of partitions. </para> |