Donald.B.Taber@SYBIL.RISC.ROCKWELL.COM: "" (Jan 16,  8:37):
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> I'm new to linux and am, of course, filled with burning questions.
> I've been playing with the floppy versions and am all excited about
> installing it on a hard drive.  I have noticed, however, that 0.12
> seems to be lacking /dev/hd8 and /dev/hd9.  Does this mean that I
> will have trouble installing it on a 2nd (hd5) hard drive?

Argghh. Yet another root-diskette bug. This one is simple to rectify:
make the new devices with;

# mknod /dev/hd8 b 3 8
# mknod /dev/hd9 b 3 9

and all should be well. I don't have hd8 and hd9, and used just a "cp
+recursive" to get the files copied to the root-diskette. I will write a
C-program to print out 1000 times:"check the rootdiskette next time".

	Linus "shamefaced" Torvalds