From: John Gay (johngay at domain eircom.net)
Date: Wed 15 Aug 2001 - 23:43:17 IST
Well, after not finding a module for the workstation to access the floppy, I
tried setting up the workstation to use the vmlinuz.all, which was rumoured
to have floppy support but does not seem to. I then fetched a copy of a
2.2.18 kernel and used it to compile just the floppy module. Now I can load
the floppy module and everything reports fine, but I still can not mount the
floppy from a root shell on the workstation. Here are the details I've posted
to ltsp::
I copied the 2.2.18 kernel sources and ran config, but only
enabled modules, pentium processor and the floppy module. Then I ran make
modules and this gave me a floppy.o module. I copied this to the appropriate
directory for the workstation and now I could load the module and I get:
inserting floppy driver for 2.2.18
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Now I check the device files:
[ws002 /]# ls -l /dev/fd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 8 Jul 29 13:35 /dev/fd0 -> /tmp/fd0
[ws002 /]# ls -l /tmp/fd0
brw-rw-rw- 1 0 0 2, 0 Aug 15 19:51 /tmp/fd0
[ws002 /]#
but when I try to mount the floppy, it still does not work?
ws002 /]# mkdir /tmp/floppy
ws002 /]# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /tmp/floppy
mount: Mounting /dev/fd0 on /tmp/floppy failed: No such device
ws002 /]#
I even tried setting the floppy module to load during boot using the MODULES
command in the lts.conf file and the driver sucessfully loads during boot,
but I still get the same problem. I thought that once I had the proper device
files and the driver loaded that Linux would take care of the rest? What am I
missing or duing wrong? This is really starting to bug me, I thought I knew
most of this. Obviously, until I can sucessfully mount the floppy from the
root shell on the workstation, I certainly won't be able to get the nbd stuff
to work.
Anyone have any other ideas? As I'm lost after this.
Cheers,
John Gay
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