On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:47:28AM -0600 or thereabouts, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Stephen wrote: > >Happy New Year ! > > > >I did something stupid, when tired and working as root. > > > What did you do? Hi Hugo: I believe I did 'rm /dev/fd0/*' Anyhow, I've fixed this. I did some reading, (imagine that) and found that via issuing some commands I could find out exactly what was happening in a more verbose and useful way. Oh joy. After finding out about the 'fdmount' command, and, once run I was given the following message; fdmount (): ioctl(FDGETDRVTYP) failed on /dev/fd0: Inappropriate ioctl for device fdmount (): drive fd0 does not exist It was via that last line, that I was able to determine, that what I had issued a few hours earlier, was most likely 'rm /dev/fd0/*' because, finally I was given a more verbose message other than just "Inappropriate ioctl for device". So, I did some more reading and discovered that '/MAKEDEV fd0' should replace the missing fd0 drive. It worked ! Yay ! I should have been more careful when working as root and using the 'rm' command, obviously. Lesson learnt. -- Regards Stephen +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courage. Those novels would make you retch. -- Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, on the generic Canadian novel. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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