Re: /dev/fd0u1743 help

["Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak" <dingo@texoma.net>]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Mike Pfleger wrote:

MP> Hello.
MP> 
MP> I have a firewall based on fireplug, and am looking at migrating to coyote
MP> linux.  I would like to extract my config files from fireplug, so that I
MP> may catalog my IRQ settings, etc. in my system logbook.  To my dismay, I
MP> do not have a /dev/fd0u1743 entry, and my attempts to make such have not
MP> been terribly successful.
MP> 
MP> I tried
MP>  mknod /dev/fd0u1743 b 2 77
MP> to install such, but this is apparently wrong, and resulted in not being
MP> able to mount the device at all, let alone correctly.  How do I determine
MP> which major and minor numbers to use?

try mknod /dev/df0u1743 b 2 76

brw-rw----    1 root     floppy     2,  76 May 31 22:12 fd0u1743

that's what it is on my machine :)

                                                Dingo.


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