From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 14:36:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B3C137B401 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 14:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0370343F3F for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 14:36:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h47LaAWi006098; Wed, 7 May 2003 16:36:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 16:36:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Aleksandar Antok Message-ID: <20030507213609.GC31032@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy doesn't recognized by FreeBSD 5.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 21:36:12 -0000 In the last episode (May 07), Aleksandar Antok said: > Hello everybody, > ? > How can I get floppy drive work under FreeBSD 5.0. I have read in the > handbook that I should use MAKEDEV, but I can't find it anywhere. In the / > dev directory I have "fd" directory(and the files "0", "1", "2"). I cannot > mount that(/dev/fd/0). Please help me or send me MAKEDEV. > ? /dev/fd/* refers to filedescriptors. You probably want /dev/fd0, which should be automatically created if you have a floppy drive. MAKEDEV is not needed in 5.0. Make sure you have "device fdc" in your kernel config file. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com