Re: No fd0

[Floris Bruynooghe <fb102@soton.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:18:04AM -0800, jeff wrote:
> had occasion to use a floppy disk, and noticed that /dev/fd0 does not 
> exist.  /dev does have an "fd" symbolic, which points to /proc/self/fd, 

fd is some stuff about file descriptors... not wat you want really.

> and there is a /.dev directory which DOES include an fd0 device.  I'm 
> running a stock 2.6.8-1-686 kerne, which includes 
> CONFIG_BLOCK_DEV_FD=m.
> 
> Any clues as to what this all means, and how I can get a /dev/fd0?

Isn't the /dev/.dev/ thing because you're running udev or devfs?  Not
sure how MAKEDEV works with them tho, I'm not using eighter of them.

Wich you all the best figuring this out...
Floris

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