Re: Top posting [WAS: floppy device deleted]

2003-06-17 Thread Tim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: | Please learn to quote if you expect anybody else to wade though this | thread to help. Top posting is considered harmful | http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html I think that link is broken. Don't look at my key Paul, I

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 07:36:48PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > The first zero means don't fsck this device on boot, > > the second means don't dump this in a backup. > > Other way round, isn't it? First one's , second is . Doh! Yeah. I was doing it fr

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-12 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 08:10:55PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > If you want to be able to mount without being root, I recommend adding > this to your /etc/fstab: > > /dev/fd0 /floppy autouser,noauto,rw 0 0 > > The first zero means don't fsck this device on boot,

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please learn to quote if you expect anybody else to wade though this thread to help. Top posting is considered harmful. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:06:35PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Thank you, I did

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please avoid top posting as it pollutes archives and makes messages harder to read. http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/email-style.html On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:06:35PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Thank you, I did as you say but my floppy is still not

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Alfredo Valles
Thank you, I did as you say but my floppy is still not working. The message is mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted file systems When I can shut down my machine I will boot up with knoppix to see if it is a hardware problem. Alfredo On Wednesday 11

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:50:15PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Hi debianeers. > > All my device files for high density floppies are gone, > I mean no /dev/fd0h1440 or any other /dev/fd0hxxx. > > But /dev/fd0 exist and it's not a link to any other dev. > (Shouldn't /dev/fd0 be a link to /d

Re: floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 06:50:15PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Now how do I get back these devices files? $ su -m # cd /dev # ./MAKEDEV generic # exit - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `

floppy device deleted

2003-06-11 Thread Alfredo Valles
Hi debianeers. All my device files for high density floppies are gone, I mean no /dev/fd0h1440 or any other /dev/fd0hxxx. But /dev/fd0 exist and it's not a link to any other dev. (Shouldn't /dev/fd0 be a link to /dev/fd0h1440?) I installed vmware4.0, played with it and uninstaled it, then I