It was Sep 29, 2000, 11:03, when [EMAIL PROTECTED] keyboarded:
>While reading a UNIX book I was wondering (chapter mounting), how does a
>device (for example a CDROM player or a disk drive) appear in the /dev
>directory ? The book told me that when you for example mount a floppy
>drive it should look something like this:
>
>mount /dev/floppy2 /medium
>
>But how does the floppy2 gets into the dev directory !?
>
>Thanx in advantage,
Hoi Niels,
groetjes uit Nederland ;)
The installer-program will do it's best to detect all your hardware. For
each part of hardware, and also for the most common devices, an entry in
the /dev directory is made. You can later on, when you know a lot about
linux, create a new device through certain commands (which I can't recall
at the moment since you barely ever need them).
Paul
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Disobey as often as possible:
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