I need help mounting a floppy

[Richard P. Williamson]

At 11:41 22/03/2004, Willy Dingledorf wrote:
>The problem began when a newbie (me) downloaded and installed FreeBSD version 5.2, and then was unable to mount a floppy disk.
> 
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>Richard Williamson wrote:
>
>Can you give us the Output of
>
>$ls /dev/fd0
>
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>Yes ... here it is:
>
>ls: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory


cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV fd0

because it looks like the fd0 floppy device doesn't exist.  Maybe when
you installed the downrev'd version, it created the /dev/fd0 when it
didn't find it.  If you look in the booting system, is /dev/fd0 there
now?

Regards,
Richard