[Leaplist] Floppy problem in Lenny - Debian-am

Whit Hansell skipper44 at comcast.net
Wed Jul 11 21:23:05 EDT 2007



Aaron Morrison wrote:
>
> On 11 Jul 2007, at 18:43, Phil Barnett wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Whit Hansell wrote:
>>> brightsun:/# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1440 /media/floppy0
>>> mount: special device /dev/fd0u1440 does not exist
>>>
>>> brightsun:/# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0u1440 /media/floppy0
>>> mount: special device /dev/fd0u1440 does not exist
>>
>> What comes back when you do
>>
>> ls /dev/fd*
>>
>> ?
>
>
> Or better yet, what does
>
> ls -l /dev/fd*
>
> return.  I'm interested in seeing what the major and minor numbers 
> come back as if they are there.
>
> --am 

Hey Aaron,

With that command I get:

brightsun:/# ls -l /dev/fd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     13 2007-07-10 16:01 /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2007-07-11 20:55 /dev/fd0

Thanks,
Whit


Whit


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