HOWTO Upgrade from devfs to udev on Debian Sarge

This article was first written in November 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/186).
Some people used devfs under Woody, or under their previous Sarge install. When going kernel 2.6, it may be useful to revert or upgrade to udev instead. The problem is that their nomenclatura is different, so your system may be rendered unbootable.