John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FreeBSD 5.0 uses devfs by default and therefore has no MAKEDEV. So for some reason your floppy drive isn't be automatically recognized. Perhaps dmesg holds clue
> There is a /dev/MAKEDEV in OpenBSD, and googling around for "makedev > freebsd" returns results that make me think it is supposed to be > there. Was it possibly deleted? > > BTW: I love this list. I didn't know much about MAKEDEV and mknod > until reading the exchange between Mat and Abbott. A quick trip to man > and info pages and now I understand what MAKEDEV is (a script that > calls mknod to build special files, like for hardware devices such as > floppy drives). > > Mat, thanks for asking that. Abbott, thanks for being a smartass. ;) > > Thanks be to Xenu for free software!!! > > John > > On 12 Feb 2003 20:28:09 -0600, Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> yes, but why would there be no /dev/MAKEDEV?? >> >> --mat >> >> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 19:55, Abbott Mujica wrote: >>> lol makedev... you newb... man mknod and also read the devices tab in >>> bsd... its all well documented mah man > > -- > John Hebert > System Engineer > I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...and one script to rule them all."
