I did mknod /dev/fd0 b 2 0 
and that restored the fd0 listing in /dev 
but I still can't mount the floppy. 
Tried it three different ways: 

Clicked on the desktop "Floppy" icon 
got this message: "Mount: Could not determine the file system type
	and none was specified." 

Tried: mount /mnt/floppy 
got the message: "Mount: You must specify file system type" 

Tried: mount /dev/fd0 
got the message "Can't find in /etc/fstab or mtab 

Checked the /dev directory and found these: 
brw-rw-r  1  root  root  2,0  (today's date) fd0 
lrwxrwxrwx  1  root  root    8  (a 2004 date) floppy -> /dev/fd0 

I guess I need to do something else to connect everything up. 


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On Friday 11 March 2005 15:20, you wrote:
> > I did a foolish thing trying to copy a file to a floppy
> > on my Mepis partition.  I used:  cp -p filename /dev/fd0
> > Trying to copy a file to the floppy drive.
> > When that didn't work, I foolishly su'd to root to try again
> > and when that didn't work, I compounded the problem
> > by removing (rm) /dev/fd0
>
> mknod /dev/fd0 b 2 0
>
> In the future, remember to 'mount' /dev/fd0 somewhere before copying
> any files.

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