Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:35:09 -0000 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Srinivasa Kanduru <ksraghavan@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy mount support Message-ID: <44fzfbejxw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031222214925.26780.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031222214925.26780.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com>
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Srinivasa Kanduru <ksraghavan@yahoo.com> writes: > I happenned to install 5.1 FreeBSD. I couldn't mount floppy disk. I noticed > that /dev/fd0 did not exist. I tried doing a mknod using character device 9, 0 > for fd0 but it doesn't work. The floppy devnode is not permitted to be created. > > Incidentally there seems to be a change in the devfs and the usage is not very > intuitive. Is there anywhere the examples are given ? Particularly if I want to > use the floppy disk how can I get around this problem. 5.x uses devfs exclusively (by default, anyway), and 4.x does not. Does the kernel detect fd0 as it is booting? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"
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