[ale] These times are a changing ... (at least Slackware is)

[Bob Kruger]

All;

I just upgraded a faithful and trusty server that had been running 
Slackware v9.0 to Slackware v12.0.  This machine has two IDE drives (hda 
and hdb) and one SCSI drive (sda).

Upgrade went flawlessly until I tried to mount the SCSI drive.  I 
usually use a line like so (until I update my /etc/fstab file)

mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /pub/sda

(Note - mount point, e.g. directory, /pub/sda exists.)

Much to my surprise, I got the message:   mount: special device 
/dev/sda1 does not exist

A quick check of the /dev directory shows no device sda1, which I had 
always seen in past Slackware versions.

Has something drastically changed, or is there a simple way that I can 
create the device /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 in the /dev directory and keep 
driving on?

 From another older slackware server, doing ls -la /dev/sda* results in:

brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  0 1995-04-29 06:33 sda
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  1 1995-04-29 06:33 sda1

Hopefully there is a simple way for me to create these in the /dev 
directory and not have to bother with massive changes. 

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

V/r

Bob