Re: /dev/console

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From: Herron Pharmaceuticals
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 00:00

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In article <01bbb9cd$58456e00$0839868b@default>, hammers@poboxes.com 
says...
>
>I recently installed the newest Slackware release and found it doesn't
>create /dev/console so the mouse and xwindows won't run at all.  Do I 
need
>to create this, or should it install. Previous slackware versions put it
>there automatically, but I had to reinstall on a fresh disk.
>Thanks in advance for any advice.

I had the same problem last night, with my typical "couldn't be bothered
reading the manual" approach, I just ran 

MAKEDEV console

under /dev/ and it seemed to work. Although I still couldn't get X up,
kept getting an error about resolution and no screens defined?

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Date: 1996/10/14
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