tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) (02/26/91)
Sorry if this seems like excessive tenderfootedness. But I need some free support. In return I give lots of enthusiastic appreciation :-) OK, here it is: I recently plopped a new 3.5" floppy into our xenix machine as "drive b:". My thought was to make an incremental improvement in doing backups. The darned thing doesn't work under Xenix. It works OK when I boot under MS-DOS. But I seem to be missing something such as /dev/fd1135ds9 and /dev/fd1135ds18. I'm trying to beat the tar :-) out of my distribution floppies to see if it's included there. If I find it I'll try to pull it over by brute force. If I don't find it I guess I'm stuck. Anybody care to comment on my situation and hint to me what might lay ont he road ahead? Thanks in advance . . . Travis Bissett -- Travis Bissett NSTAR conferencing site 219-289-0287 internet: tbissett@nstar.rn.com 1300 newsgroups - 8 inbound lines uucp: ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!tbissett 99 file areas - 4300 megabytes --- backbone news & mail feeds available - contact larry@nstar.rn.com ---
glen@sungate.UUCP (Glen) (02/26/91)
In article <9ooXX3w161w@nstar.rn.com>, tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes: > But I seem to be missing something such as /dev/fd1135ds9 and > /dev/fd1135ds18. I'm trying to beat the tar :-) out of my distribution > floppies to see if it's included there. It's not. Those devices are not created if you install from 96tpi floppies, which you did. Login as root, and execute the following commands... /etc/mknod /dev/fd1135ds9 b 2 37 /etc/mknod /dev/rfd1135ds9 c 2 37 /etc/mknod /dev/fd1135ds18 b 2 61 /etc/mknod /dev/rfd1135ds18 c 2 61 These will create all the necessary special files to allow you to access your 3.5" second floppy. Hope this helps! -- ** --*-- --*-- --*-- --*-- --*-- --*-- --*-- --*-- --*-- ** Glen Barney 301-330-4700 The beach is not just a place InterNet: glen%sungate@uunet.UU.NET to be - it's a way of life! BangPath: uunet!sungate!glen
aryeh@eddie.mit.edu (Aryeh M. Weiss) (02/26/91)
In article <9ooXX3w161w@nstar.rn.com> tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes: >But I seem to be missing something such as /dev/fd1135ds9 and >/dev/fd1135ds18. I'm trying to beat the tar :-) out of my distribution Please see fd(HW), mknod(C), and mkdev(ADM). Essentially the commands to create the device nodes are: mknod /dev/fd1135ds9 b 2 37 mknod /dev/fd1135ds18 b 2 61 mknod /dev/rfd1135ds9 c 2 37 mknod /dev/rfd1135ds18 c 2 61 The meaning of the minor device numbers is explained in fd(HW).
root@medsys.uucp (sysop) (02/27/91)
tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) writes: >is: I recently plopped a new 3.5" floppy into our xenix machine as "drive >b:". My thought was to make an incremental improvement in doing backups. The >darned thing doesn't work under Xenix. It works OK when I boot under MS-DOS. >But I seem to be missing something such as /dev/fd1135ds9 and >/dev/fd1135ds18. I'm trying to beat the tar :-) out of my distribution >floppies to see if it's included there. If I find it I'll try to pull it Try this: fixperm -c -dFD135 /etc/perms/inst Be sure to be in the root directory when you give this command. -- __ __| __ __ LaVerne Olney -- Med-Systems |/^\/^\ /__) / | (__ \ / (__ Medical Office Management Software | | | \__ \__| ___) \/ ___) Kingsport, TN 37660 U.S.A. Unix BBS: 615-288-3957 / UUCP: uunet!medsys!laverne
tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) (02/27/91)
glen@sungate.UUCP (Glen) writes: > It's not. Those devices are not created if you install from 96tpi floppies, > which you did. Login as root, and execute the following commands... > > /etc/mknod /dev/fd1135ds9 b 2 37 > /etc/mknod /dev/rfd1135ds9 c 2 37 > /etc/mknod /dev/fd1135ds18 b 2 61 > /etc/mknod /dev/rfd1135ds18 c 2 61 > > These will create all the necessary special files to allow you to access > your 3.5" second floppy. > > Hope this helps! > Ha! Now you tell me! :-) Well, I'm sure it would have been useful info if I'd read it before solving my problem another way. But, I've captured your msg to file in my log 'cuz it gives me something even better than a fix -- a path to true understanding. I sure have a LOT to learn about how Xenix/Unix works! Thaks much :-) Travis -- Travis Bissett NSTAR conferencing site 219-289-0287 internet: tbissett@nstar.rn.com 1300 newsgroups - 8 inbound lines uucp: ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!tbissett 99 file areas - 4300 megabytes --- backbone news & mail feeds available - contact larry@nstar.rn.com ---