Bug#32632: boot-floppies: /dev/hda9 not created

[<jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.1.4

cfdisk will make partition /dev/hda9, and dinstall will show it in
lists, but mke2fs fails.  The problem is that there is no device file
/dev/hda9, on either the root floppy or the base system.  The
workaround is to switch to VT2 and create it manually with "mknod hda9
b 3 9".  This has to be repeated later for the base system.  Hardly
obvious for a new user.

The problem traces back to a line like this in /dev/MAKEDEV on the
system used to build the installation files:

	for part in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 # 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
	                            ^

The MAKEDEV man page says 

  "By default, only the devices for 4 logical partitions are made.  The
  others can be made by uncommenting them."

I think more hda devices should be supplied at least for the installation
disks.  It may be okay to supply only 8 devices for hdb, hdc, and hdd.

(Note - MAKEDEV does supply scsi devices up through sda15.)


-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0
Kernel Version: Linux vanzandt 2.1.132 #5 Tue Dec 29 15:31:03 EST 1998 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages boot-floppies depends on:
ii  libc6-pic       2.0.7v-1       The GNU C library version 2 (PIC library)
ii  slang1-pic      1.2.2-2        The S-Lang programming library, shared libra
ii  sysutils        1.3.2          Miscellaneous small system utilities.
ii  makedev         2.3.1-10       Creates special device files in /dev.
ii  newt0.25        0.25-3         Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode win
ii  newt0.25-dev    0.25-3         Developer's toolkit for newt windowing libra
ii  popt            1.0-4          C library for parsing command line parameter
ii  zlib1g          1.1.3-2        compression library - runtime
ii  zlib1g-dev      1.1.3-2        compression library - development
ii  recode          3.4.1-11       Character set conversion utility.