How to install a device

cyberhawk · 05-05-2003, 09:32 AM

hi there i'm a newbie. i recently installed mandrake 9.1. i had no problems until i changed my floppy drive to an optical drive. the optical drive is situated on hdb but there is no device hdb in /dev/. so right now my optical floppy point to a device which is not there and i can't read floppies from linux. how do i remedy this.

also i changed my soundcard and now i have no sound and i can't find the soundcard in the Mandrake System Configurator. any idea where i can find my sound card device and get it working.

vladkrack · 05-05-2003, 10:46 AM

You can create a device with mknod, use `man mknod` for betteri nformations.
Usually /dev/hdb can be created with:
# mknod /dev/hdb 3 64
# mknod /dev/hdb1 3 65
# mknod /dev/hdb2 3 66
etc ...

For sound configuration, you can try alsaconf, but depends of the model of the soundcard ...