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From: lawrence@combdyn.com (Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen)
Subject: Re: Blew my /dev directory away, so now what?
Message-ID: <1996Feb20.231041.4654@combdyn.com>
Organization: Combustion Dynamics Ltd.
References: <3123B545.4D54@visi.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:10:41 GMT
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"Bigfoot (Guy Gustavson)" <bigfoot@visi.com> writes:
>The other night I was trying to biult the snp device so I could use
>watch. I did a ./MAKEDEV * in the /dev directory and it blew away
>my device tables completely.
>(Either that or the machine over heated and looked up.)
>What I want to know is...
>
>1. Did I do this to myself with the command I ran?
>2. Could I have saved the installation without reinstalling? If so, how?
A "./MAKEDEV all" should create them all back again. Or maybe 'local' or 'std'
as the argument.
Though I looked at the script file, and I couldn't see any information on
creating snp device nodes.
So, I would like to know how to create them....
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