Re: No fd0

[Sergiy <se@h3c.de>]

jeff wrote:
> I've been running testing on my home-built ASUS/Celeron for several 
> months, with very few problems.  Today, for the first time, though, I 
> 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, 
> 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?

cd to /dev and exec ./MAKEDEV as root
MAKEDEV(8) helps 2

> Thanks.
> -jeff


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