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NotExcessive
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I've just finished building up a new 2.6.17-r4 system, and when trying to mount a floppy or CDROM, can't, because there are no entries in /dev for any floppies or CDROM devices. How do I get these created manually?
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The question is, why don't you have a /dev
Do you have any UDEV errors beeing reported? Thats kinda strange.
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NotExcessive
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| I do have a /dev directory, just nothing in there for floppies or CDROMs. Is there a way I can rebuild this? |
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Paapaa
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| Do you have the support turned on in the kernel? |
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NotExcessive
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep most certainly do. |
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if you mean nodes like /dev/cdrom, those are usually only symlinks to the actual nodes, like /dev/hdc. do these nodes exist on your system?
if not, you might try to
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cd /dev && MAKEDEV hdc
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(provided your cdrom is the secondary master ide device) and see if you can mount that.
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troymc
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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If you are using udev make sure it's running:
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$ ps -ef | grep udev
root 1111 1 0 Aug05 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon
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If it's not running, start it with: udevstart
It should start automatically creating your /dev nodes for you.
If you are not using udev then you can manually make the static devices using MAKEDEV. If your cd is hdc then try:
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# cd /dev
# MAKEDEV hdc
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You might need to enable the device tarball in /etc/conf.d/rc if you do this.
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NotExcessive
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | cd /dev
MAKEDEV hdb |
Did the trick. Thanks  |
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