On Sunday 28 Dec 2003 22:04, Bruce E. Harris wrote:
> ok, this one have me at a loss. I am trying to access my floppy via
> Gentoo and having no luck. I tried to create a floppyfw and coyote
> floppy and it could not access /dev/fd0. Looking in at /dev I see fd/
> but not fd0. I added /dev/fd0 to my etc/fstab but no change. I cant
> not mount my floppy either. I had to boot into SuSE to create the
> floppyfw and edit it but rather stay in Gentoo.
>
> Any ideas?

My /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd  This is a file descriptor and not what you 
want.  Look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt and make the 
node yourself.

$ ll /dev/fd0
brw-rw----    1 root    floppy     2,   0 2003-12-28 13:48 /dev/fd0

So become root, cd /dev, then do:
mknod fd0 b 2 0

...then make its permissions rw for owner (root) and group (floppy) and 
try again.

Peter
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