Support Requests item #605926, was opened at 2002-09-07 00:51 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=213751&aid=605926&group_id=13751
Category: None Group: None Status: Closed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Mike Noyes (mhnoyes) Summary: Huh? no fd0u1680 Initial Comment: I am using mandrake 8.2. There are no entries in /dev for floppies greater than 1440. Directions for LRP distros say I need /dev/fd0u1680, but this doesn't work. What should I do? I've been to the FAQ. ALSO, is there a FORUM anywhere that I can post questions and see other's questions and answers, or is there just the mailing list? Thanks much for any help. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Brad Fritz (bradfritz) Date: 2002-09-08 20:04 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=299284 I think you were half way their when you used the mknod command and got the "read only file system" message. Do you have write permission to the /dev/fd0u1680 device? Have you verified that your floppy is not write protected? If you're still having problems, post the output of ls -l /dev/fd0u1680 ; whoami ; groups --Brad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jack Coates (stinkingpig) Date: 2002-09-08 18:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=18550 mknod /dev/fd0u1680 b 2 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-09-08 18:25 Message: Logged In: NO No luck. 1) First post below, about mknod, creates a fd0u1680 that when formated says "read only file system" and won't format. 2) From the second post, the mandrake fdutils package installed a bunch of floppy in dev, including a fd0u1760, but no fd0u1680. I'm trying to use LRP ......... MORE INFO / GOAL I need a linux boot floppy that will boot a shell linux system, that can run a DHCP client to connect to my network and run a small command line program, setiathome. The network cards I have available are built into the MB and are not PXE boot compatible. I do have LTSP running on my server, but it needs PXE to boot the clients. Thanks for any help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-09-08 18:24 Message: Logged In: NO No luck. 1) First post below, about mknod, creates a fd0u1680 that when formated says "read only file system" and won't format. 2) From the second post, the mandrake fdutils package installed a bunch of floppy in dev, including a fd0u1760, but no fd0u1680. I'm trying to use LRP ......... MORE INFO / GOAL I need a linux boot floppy that will boot a shell linux system, that can run a DHCP client to connect to my network and run a small command line program, setiathome. The network cards I have available are built into the MB and are not PXE boot compatible. I do have LTSP running on my server, but it needs PXE to boot the clients. Thanks for any help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ewald Wasscher (ewaldw) Date: 2002-09-07 04:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=173891 Install the fdutils package (Mandrake has an rpm for it) and run as root: /usr/bin/MAKEFLOPPIES This should create the appropriate /dev files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2002-09-07 02:58 Message: Logged In: NO The answer you are looking for would be in the Mandrake FAQ, not the LEAF FAQ. Try this as root: cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV -v fd0 If that doesn't do it, try: cd /dev ; mknod /dev/fd0u1680 b 2 44 There is no forum, just the mailing list. I can't speak for everyone hear, but it's *much* easier for me to field questions via email (especially across multiple subject groups) than to struggle with web-based forums. (Sorry, venting a bit there.) There are at least three archives of the mailing list traffic. The mail-archive interface provides the best search support. It's at: http://www.mail-archive.com/leaf-user%40lists.sourceforge.net/ There's also a geocrawler archive and sourceforge archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/7325/0/ http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=12&page_id=5 (The direct SF link doesn't seem to be working right now.) Questions submitted to the mailing list directly seem to get more replies. If you have further questions and want the widest audience, mail to leaf-user (after reading the support request FAQ at http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ) might be the best avenue. --Brad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=213751&aid=605926&group_id=13751 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? 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