I am afraid you won't get usb support for your floppy without a kernel recompile. Also if you are using the 2.2 kernel series then even a kernel recompile will probably do you no good. USB is better supported with the 2.3 kernels. Anyhow it is good to learn to compile a kernel; you can get rid of all the junk you don't need and it will make your system faster. The mount that you performed with /dev/fd0 failed because the system had no idea about your USB floppy drive. And even if it did know (somehow) the floppy would not be located under /dev/fd0 (it would be /dev/something since it uses USB). The first link below should take you to the kernel-howto. It will instruct you on how to compile the 2.3 kernel that you need to download. The second link will take you to the linux usb site where you can find out what options to configure/enable in the kernel.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html http://www.linux-usb.org If you really don't want to compile I invite you to try finding a precompiled debian package of the 2.3 kernel compiled with USB support. Good luck. Swamy > debs, > > i just got a sony picturebook (pcg-c1xs) yesterday. > > i did a smooth, harddrive install. (thanks > project!) > > having a usb floppy drive, i want to make a boot > floppy, but the > box doesn't recognize /dev/fd0. > > eg. "$ mount /dev/fd0 /bt <bentley taylor>" > > " mount: the kernel does not recognize > /dev/fd0 as a block > device." > > i'm a virgin at the recompile. but am i looking at > that for usb > support? installing potato? ...woody? > > ia, t. > > bentley taylor. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
