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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:57 pm    Post subject: floppy drives don't mount Reply with quote

Hi,
I've been using Gentoo for developing an OS, and now I wanted to try to dd the created image to a real floppy drive (before I've used bochs), and so I thought that I should mount my floppy. But, when I try to do some simple sudo mount /dev/fd/0 /mnt it says /dev/fd is not a block device. I have checked google with this error, but nothing helped... So, please, if you can, help me :?

Thanks a lot.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try /dev/fd0 instead.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for reply, but it didn't help: no such file or directory.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you compile the support for your floppy drive into your kernel? If you compiled it as a module: Did you load the module?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've compiled my kernel with genkernel, but I haven't enabled anything...
How to load modules?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

houbysoft wrote:
I've compiled my kernel with genkernel, but I haven't enabled anything...


I'm not familiar with genkernel, I do not know if it enables floppy disk support or not...

houbysoft wrote:
How to load modules?


man modprobe
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