Michael Sullivan wrote: > >> >> >> >> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy >ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory > > >No /dev/floppy!!! > > >
I should have thought of the new to Linux factor. /dev/floppy is only a link to /dev/floppy/0. Just like /dev/mouse is a link to /dev/input/mouse0 for me. There are a lot of things that are only links. Even if the /dev/fd0 was there and the /dev/floppy/0 was not, it would not work. Look in dmesg for something like this: > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 That is what mine looks like and it should be something similiar to that. My floppy was made before 1991. I didn't know it was that old. O_O Oh, to get dmesg, just go to a terminal and type in dmesg. If you don't want to search through it, type in "dmesg | grep fd0" and see what it says. Leave out the quotes though. Hope that helps. 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
