So thus far you've reinvented the wheel several times without once
stating the specific command that you're using to try & mount the CD or
floppy. EIther you've got some very unusual hardware, or you're doing
something wrong, because mounting CDs or floppies are incredibly simple:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
Look at dmesg to see which devices are getting recognized at bootup.
Unless you see the floppy & CDROM listed, this is a hardware problem,
and won't be fixed in Linux.
--- Geof Steichen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is a little difficult to cut/paste and e-mail you when I cannot get
> the
> floppy or cdrom to work so I can get the NIC driver loaded. I cannot
> telnet,
> ftp, e-mail, or otherwise communicate using the system in question.
>
> I get the error message indicating a wrong major or minor device
> number when
> I try to mount either the floppy or cdrom. As I showed in my previous
> post,
> the ls /dev/fd0 -l command results look correct for the floppy. I
> even tried
> creating my own /dev/newfd0 using mknod command.
>
> When I try to mount /mnt/floppy I get the error message. I get a
> similar
> message when I try mount /mnt/cdrom. Both are in the /etc/fstab and
> are
> defined correctly (i.e. correct device /dev/fd0 for /mnt/floppy).
>
> This used to work just fine under COL2.3 but when I moved the drive to
> the
> new box (AMD K7-900, Asus A7V MB, different network card, different
> video
> card, etc.) I learned that COL2.3 would not work with the K7-900. I
> then
> used the eDesktop2.4 kernel instead. I can boot and run kde ok but
> cannot
> mount the floppy or the cdrom.
>
> I need to find a reference on how this device number stuff works so
> that I
> can get the floppy working. I can then get the network card working
> and then
> get on-line to e-mail any further details.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday 04 August 2001 06:41 pm, you wrote:
> > Please give more detail.
> > What does not work?
> > What specific command fails?
> > How was the drive mounted?
> > What is the precise error message? Cut and paste off the screen so
> we can
> > see exactly what has happened.
> > Under what other circumstances is the error occuring?
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