Better advice how to handle devices .. Deb with devfsd and Ex if setting up

from a system already using devfs to make a devfs=nomount system.

yard/templates/Example-Debian.yard

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id: Example-Debian.yard,v 1.7 2001/12/11 19:42:34 freesource Exp $
+# $Id: Example-Debian.yard,v 1.8 2001/12/12 05:12:46 freesource Exp $
 # Generated by make_debian.
 
 # Note:  This is provided as an example to show how a macro distribution
@@ -126,25 +126,12 @@
 /etc/network/options
 /etc/network/spoof-protect
 
-# Devices - optional stuff which can be picked up by devfsd.
+# Devices - leaving a console (just in case) and MAKEDEV if you
+# want to make devices which will only exist until you reboot or halt
+# the system.  If you need devices which last from one invocation to
+# the next, install devfsd and edit /etc/devfs/devices. 
 /dev/MAKEDEV # a link
-/dev/mem	
-/dev/kmem
-/dev/null       
-/dev/zero
-/dev/ram*
 /dev/console
-/dev/tty[0-9]
-/dev/hd[abcd]*              
-/dev/ttyS[0-9]		    
-/dev/fd0*                   
-/dev/sd*                    
-#/dev/cdrom 
-#/dev/modem       
-/dev/pts*
-/dev/ptmx
-/dev/initctl
-/dev/urandom
 
 #  Empty directories with no stuff.
 /mnt        

yard/templates/Example.yard

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#  $Id: Example.yard,v 1.12 2001/12/11 05:40:39 freesource Exp $
+#  $Id: Example.yard,v 1.13 2001/12/11 19:14:08 freesource Exp $
 #  Example.yard
 #
 #  Creates a minimalistic multi-user runlevel root filesystem with getty.  
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@
 #  Create either as a normal user or root.
 #
 #  Works both with and without devfs, i.e devfs=nomount, assuming the correct
-#  replacement inittab is used.
+#  replacement inittab is used.  In order to create a non-devfs from a host 
+#  system using devfs, either manually mknod /dev/tty[0-2] (major 4 minor 0-2)
+#  or  have devfsd automatically make these devices every time the root 
+#  filesystem starts.
 
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