What happened to /dev/fd0 in FC5 ??
Philip Rhoades
phil at pricom.com.au
Sun Jul 9 18:54:53 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 13:39 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > People,
> >
> > I haven't used the floppy since I upgraded to FC5 but I just went to do
> > something and it doesn't exist! I googled around and it seems that FC5
> > does not install the floppy device? I tried using:
> >
> > mknod /dev/fd0 b 2 0
> >
> > but although the device was created, when I try and use dd to put an
> > image on the floppy I get:
> >
> > dd: opening `/dev/fd0': No such device or address
> >
> > What is going on?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Phil.
> With udev, running mknode is usually a wast of time. Udev will
> create the device files as needed. The floppy devices are normally
> created when the floppy module is loaded. From looking around, I
> think this is done by the /etc/sysconfig/modules/idev-stw.modules
> script. But you can try running "modprobe floppy" or "modprobe -v
> floppy" and see what happens. It returns a "No such device" error on
> my laptop, but I expected that, as it does not have a floppy drive.
I get:
[root at prix attach]# modprobe -v floppy
FATAL: Module floppy not found.
I DO have a floppy drive . . what now?
Thanks,
Phil.
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