On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:56 -0600, Dale wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > >How do I find what my floppy drive is called? I thought it would be > >called /dev/fd0, but /dev/fd0 doesn't exist, and I'm at a loss on how to > >address it... > > > > > > > > I usually just look around in there and find it. I use udev, I assume > you do to, and this is what I get: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # ls -al /dev/fd0 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 23 15:45 /dev/fd0 -> floppy/0 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # > > > So if you don't have the link, it should be /dev/floppy/0 that is the > floppy drive. > > Hope that helps. I type it out because it took me a while to figure out > what HTH was. LOL > > Dale > :-) > > > -- > To err is human, I'm most certainly human. > > I have four rigs: > > 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now > two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker > 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. > Named Swifty > 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB > drive. Named Pokey > 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a > 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput > > All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set > up as servers. >
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory No /dev/floppy!!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
