[plug] MDK 8.1 Install Blues...

[Bill Kenworthy]

I am having similar probs with devfs.  It seems that once the device is
recognised, all runs fine, but ...

For the LS120, I put a disk in before booting up and it is fine.  I also
had a problem with the floppy, but am doing a reinstall for other
reasons (reconfiguring disks) so dont know yet if it will fix that.

Do try "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" (presuming a dos disk) to
force it and see what happens - once that worked, the normal mount did.

Note that devfs makes the /dev entries on demand, but I dont think its
is ready for prime time yet ...

BillK

On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 20:31, Anthony Peck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed 8.1 three times (first upgrading 8.0) and
> then clean installs.
> 
> I seem to be missing a heap of /dev files, including fd* files
> needed to access floppy.  Install proceeds fine, even lets me
> make a bootdisk using the floppy drive, but when I try to
> mount /mnt/floppy after install reboot I get...
> 
> mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device
> 
> ...and I can't use /dev/fd0H1440 as I have done before because
> it ain't there!
> 
> Any advice?  My next try was a new CD but that seems extreme!
> 
>