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- From: callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison)
- Subject: Re: Newbie Linuxer & misc. Qs (LONG!)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.091432.11879@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul26.220519.18078@sura.net> <5446@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 09:14:32 GMT
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- In article <5446@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul26.220519.18078@sura.net> vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish) writes:
- >>4. Mtools sometimes can't initialize my floppies, and sometimes can't
- >> even see them (depending on what random numbers I'm using in
- >> /etc/mtools).
- >
- >You should have
- > A /dev/fd0 12 0 0 0
- > B /dev/fd1 12 0 0 0
- >for the floppy entries in /etc/mtools.
-
- Hmmm. I just left it as
- A /dev/PS0
- and did
- ln /dev/fd0 /dev/PS0
- and it works just fine for me.
-
- James
-
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