[SLE] major and minor problem
How do i change the major and minor numbers for the floppy drive, and what should they be? *--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge@macn.bc.ca | | http://gone for now | *--------------------------------* -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi Chris, Chris Large wrote:
How do i change the major and minor numbers for the floppy drive, and what should they be?
I don't know if you can _change_ them, but you can create _new_ devices with mknod. 'man mknod' is your friend. I think there's a document that contains a list with device numbers somewhere in the kernel source tree (in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ or something like that).
*--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge@macn.bc.ca | | http://gone for now | *--------------------------------*
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 04:46:01PM -0700, Chris Large wrote:
How do i change the major and minor numbers for the floppy drive, and what should they be?
Huh. Why should you want to do that? If you change these, you must also change the kernel sources to recognise the new numbers, recompile the new kernel and intall it. Your major and minor numbers should be installed correctly by SuSE. Please tell us your problem and I bet the solution is not the change the major and minor numbers. Regards, Cees. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
How do i change the major and minor numbers for the floppy drive, and what should they be?
Huh. Why should you want to do that? If you change these, you must also change the kernel sources to recognise the new numbers, recompile the new kernel and intall it.
Your major and minor numbers should be installed correctly by SuSE.
Please tell us your problem and I bet the solution is not the change the major and minor numbers.
When in kde and ones hits the floppy icon to mount a floppy, i get the error coming back as work major and minor numbers. Here is the line for the dev it is trying to mount. brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 2, 0 Mar 11 02:11 fd0 Both root and a user have the same problem. Even trying to get root to do a manual mount, it comes back with the same problem. *--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge@macn.bc.ca | | http://gone for now | *--------------------------------* -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:13:08AM -0700, Chris Large wrote:
How do i change the major and minor numbers for the floppy drive, and what should they be?
Your major and minor numbers should be installed correctly by SuSE.
When in kde and ones hits the floppy icon to mount a floppy, i get the error coming back as work major and minor numbers.
Here is the line for the dev it is trying to mount.
brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 2, 0 Mar 11 02:11 fd0
Both root and a user have the same problem. Even trying to get root to do a manual mount, it comes back with the same problem.
This is correct. In a shell, as root, try to mount and unmount a floppy: - 1 - insert a 'normal' dos-formates floppy in you drive - 2 - as root do: 'mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy' - 3 - as root do: 'ls -la /floppy' - 4 - as root do: 'umount /floppy' If all this works, the system recognizes the floppy correctly. Regards, Cees. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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