I tried the first step and for whatever reason, it would mount the floppy, but gave IO errors whenever I tried to access the mount point.
So, I did the second item. The syntax I had to use was: mknod 0 b 2 0 and I created the "0" device in the directory you specified and linked it. I then retried mounting and "lo and behold", the magic happened! Thank You James! Now I need to add the floppy to the "removable device" menu at the desktop. Again, Thank You! On Thursday 21 November 2002 12:15 am, you wrote: > This should allow you to create at least one floppy device ... > > First I would enter / make sure a line like > > none /mnt/floppy supermount > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 > 0 > > (it's actully all one line but word wrap in the e-mail client makes it > more) > > then put a floppy in and try and mount it manually.... see if devfs > created it... IF not. It can be created manually. > > As root cd to /dev > > mkdir floppy > > cd floppy > > mknod b 0 floppy 2 0 (note those are both zero's not oh's) > > cd ../ > > ln -s floppy/0 fd0 > > > This will create a config situation identical to all of the mdk 9.0 > boxes I've checked. For whatever reason MAKEDEV is still there but no > longer works.... in it's place we have mknod that requires more work to > configure...*sigh* > > James > > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 19:05, Tom wrote: > > What have I overlooked? > > > > As root, I tried: > > > > cd /dev; /sbin/MAKEDEV fd > > > > and it comes up with a "don't have permission" error > > > > Then I tried: > > > > modprobe floppy > > > > and still no floppy devices. > > > > I am using the 7 CD box set of Mandrake 9.0 > > > > I am trying to configure the Internet services before connecting the > > machine to Internet and was attempting to use the floppy for transferring > > configuration files from another Mandrake machine (8.1) > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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