Re: floppy in kernel 2.6: is not a block device

2004-10-01 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:53, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Can't use my floppy drive in Linux 2.6. > G> As root in /dev type: MAKEDEV floppy > ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "floppy" > G> Another piece, is "udev" installed? > OK, I installed it and rebooted. > G> If it is, it should cre

Re: floppy in kernel 2.6: is not a block device

2004-09-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
Can't use my floppy drive in Linux 2.6. G> As root in /dev type: MAKEDEV floppy ./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "floppy" G> Another piece, is "udev" installed? OK, I installed it and rebooted. G> If it is, it should create those auto-magically. No it didn't. ls /dev/f* shows none. Now tr

Re: floppy in kernel 2.6: is not a block device

2004-09-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 04:08 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > How does one use one's floppy under kernel 2.6? > $ mount /floppy > mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device > I tired /usr/share/doc/fdutils/Fdutils.html#SEC7 's idea: > for i in /dev/fd0*; do dd if=$i of=/tmp/foo count=1 && break; done >