Re: How to restore /dev/fd0

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Author: Kurt Granroth
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: How to restore /dev/fd0
On Mar 11, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Josef Lowder 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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