On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Rick Younie wrote: > Jim McQuillan wrote: > > > > Rick Younie wrote: > > > >> Wolfgang Schweer wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Rick Younie wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>I had to do a > >>>>mknod -m 0666 /dev/fd0 b 2 0 > >>>>I did this from the root console on tty1 you get with > >>>>1:5:respawn:/bin/startsess tty1 /bin/bash --login > >>>>(very handy, that) but it should go in rc.mfloppy. > >>>> > >>>Hi Rick, > >>> > >>>that's o.k., but chmod 666 /dev/fd0 should do it. > >>> > >> > >> You mean no mknod or no 0 :-) ? /dev/fd0 doesn't exist on > >> the ws here -- Georg's latest termserv debs. > >> > > Rick, > > > > when using devfs, the device nodes will automatically > > appear when the floppy device module has been loaded. > > > > So, you need to load the floppy.o module, then you should > > be able to do the chmod. > > Hi, > > Fair enough. You either have to explicitly load the floppy > module or else mknod. Starting floppyd on the workstation > doesn't load floppy.o itself and an "mdir a:" on the ws will > try and access the server floppy drive. ( not a whine, just for > completeness. Mtools has been problematic for quite a few people > I talked with. ) > > Rick >
Hi, Rick was quite right in doing it that way. He was testing what I had proposed. And I was using devfsd configured to automatically load modules when referencing a floppy-device, but hadn't explicitly documented this. He found the way out anyway. But let's go ahead: Jim, wouldn't it be nice, to reconsider the configuration of devfsd? It's much more handy. No longer insmoding or modprobing modules or making nods or changing permissions of devices manually. BTW: it would be nice, too, if the isapnp module was included. Wolfgang Wolfgang _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net