diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
index 8766d59fb8..a13aed3b43 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml
@@ -1317,7 +1317,7 @@ Swap: 256M Total, 38M Used, 217M Free, 15% Inuse
 
       <sect3>
 	<title>MAKEDEV Script</title>
-	<para>On systems without <literal>DEVFS</literal>, device nodes are created
+	<para>On systems without <literal>DEVFS</literal> (this concerns all FreeBSD versions before 5.0), device nodes are created
 	  using the &man.MAKEDEV.8; script as shown below:</para>
 
 	<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /dev</userinput>