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       will save you much more time in the long run.</para>
   </sect1>
 
+  <sect1>
+    <title>Devices and Device Nodes</title>
+
+    <para>A device is a term used mostly for hardware-related
+      activities in a system, including disks, printers, graphics
+      cards, and keyboards.  When FreeBSD boots, the majority
+      of what FreeBSD displays are devices being detected.
+      You can look through the boot messages again by viewing
+      <filename>/var/run/dmesg.boot</filename>.</para>
+
+    <para>For example, <devicename>acd0</devicename> is the
+      first IDE CDROM drive, while <devicename>kbd0</devicename>
+      represents the keyboard.</para>
+
+    <para>Most of these devices in a Unix operating system must be
+      accessed through a special file called device nodes, which are
+      located in the <filename>/dev</filename> directory.</para>
+
+    <sect2>
+      <title>Creating Device Nodes</title>
+      <para>When adding a new device to your system, or compiling
+	in support for additional devices, a device driver
+	often-times needs to be created.</para>
+
+      <sect3>
+	<title>MAKEDEV Script</title>
+	<para>On systems without DEVFS, device nodes are created
+	  using the &man.MAKEDEV.8; script as shown below:</para>
+
+	<screen>&prompt.root; cd /dev
+&prompt.root; sh MAKEDEV ad1
+	</screen>
+
+	<para>This example would make the proper device nodes
+	  for the second IDE drive when installed.</para>
+      </sect3>
+
+      <sect3>
+	<title>devfs (Device File System)</title>
+
+	<para> The device file system, or devfs, provides access to
+	  kernel's device namespace in the global filesystem namespace.
+	  Instead of having to create and modify device nodes,
+	  devfs maintains this particular filesystem for you.</para>
+
+	<para>See the &man.devfs.5; man page for more
+	  information.</para>
+
+	<para>devfs is used by default in FreeBSD 5.0.</para>
+      </sect3>
+    </sect2>
+  </sect1>
+
   <sect1>
     <title>For More Information...</title>