[plug] MDK 8.1 Install Blues...

[Leon Brooks]

On Tuesday 16 October 2001 20:31, Anthony Peck wrote:
> I seem to be missing a heap of /dev files,

Not missing, devfs hasn't deigned to make them, for whatever reason.

> 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

You can make the devices by hand with mknod of a MAKEDEV script if devfs is 
too dense to do it automagically. I've run across this problem once only, 
where devfs didn't make /dev/ppp and fixed it (which in theory I don't have 
to do, but never mind) by doing a modprobe ppp before trying to run pppd 
itself.

If this was Debian, devfs would still be in the testing tree. OTOH it has 
saved me having to manually make some dev nodes already.