http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html
You will se it clearly says:
"MAKEDEV is no longer available, nor is it required. FreeBSD 5.X uses a device filesystem, which automatically creates device nodes on demand. For more information, please see <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=devfs&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.1-release>devfs(5)."
Any new version of an OS, particularly a free one, as FreeBSD is, will have issues. Particularly with the recent rapidity of new hardware, SATA drives, SATA card, RAID cards, etc.
There are places to "purchase" copies of FreeBSD other than CompUSA where you can get 4.X or 5.X versions. Or you can download and burn your own CD's. You sound upset that you bought FreeBSD, if you are be upset perhaps you should be with CompUSA who made the money off the sale.
-Derek
At 04:05 AM 10/8/2003 -0700, ecsd wrote:
Given that FreeBSD 5.1 is on the shelf in a box at CompUSA for sale to the general public, I think the proper thing to do is address the matter of documenting the revised operation of the devices in 5.X, rather than tell people to downgrade if they don't understand the behavior of their system, besides which FreeBSD 4.8 or 4.9 are not for sale at CompUSA as a consolation. I did ask to know what documentation there is for the new behavior, but I have not heard any replies. If there isn't any documentation, that's an answer too.
-ecsd
Poul-Henning Kamp writes:In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ecsd writes:MAKEDEV was the cheese since year zero. [...]I suggest you stick with 4-stable until you have caught up with the changes and the documentation.
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