On Sunday 23 Nov 2003 13:58, James Ferguson wrote: > Hi I'm trying to write a image to a disk and have just noticed that > my floppy isnt working > > /dev/floppy is a dir not a device > > fd0 isnt in /dev/ > > and /dev/fd/0 gives 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > and nothing happens > > It wont mount either > > its not hardware i have tried the drive in another machine > I don't think you want /dev/fd/0: $ ll /dev/fd/0 lrwx------ 1 peter peter 64 2003-11-24 14:49 /dev/fd/0 -> /dev/pts/0
...this is what you should have: $ ll /dev/fd0 brw-rw---- 1 peter floppy 2, 0 2003-11-23 14:36 /dev/fd0 ...so as root, do: mknod /dev/fd0 b 2 0 and you should be OK. Peter -- ====================================================================== Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.23_pre8-gss) i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ ====================================================================== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
