Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95 14:44:16 EST From: jeffa@sybase.com (Jeff Anuszczyk) To: exs@sperry.mhs.compuserve.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I/O devices; mouse Message-ID: <9503101944.AA05908@red_oak.sybgate.sybase.com>
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> Or something to that effect. Anyway, no entries for either device are > found in /dev. You don't find a /dev/tty00 or /dev/tty01? If not then clearly you won't be able to access the serial ports. Take a look at the file /dev/MAKEDEV. This is the main script that drives the creation of the device special files. You can simply cd /dev and do something like the following: sh ./MAKEDEV tty00 I have to confess it's been a while since i did tty00 so if you take a quick look at this script you should see the section for creating tty* type devices. Follow the instructions at that point. Oh yea, if you haven't realize this yet: COM1 ==> /dev/tty00 COM2 ==> /dev/tty01 > If this is not a bug then: It isn't in so much as failure to have these files will do this. However, they are always created when the system gets installed. So, I'm a bit baffled as to why you don't have them. > Do these need to be made explicitly? In your case I guess the answer is yes... via the MAKEDEV script. > I did not install /src. I believe major/minor numbers are out > there but... > > I also get an error when trying to mount the CD-ROM drive. > (FreeBSD 2.0 on CD) > mount /dev/cd0a /mnt > returns the error > Can't mount /dev/cd0a on /mnt: ??Invalid or Illegal?? super block > What might be the problem here? Yea, CD-ROM's are in 9660 format not UFS filesystems. You need to mount this using either: V1.1.5.1: mount -t isofs /dev/cd0a /cdrom V2.0+: mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom Have fun, Jeff
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