I went to cp a driver to floppy and goofed up, should have studied first. Anyway just wiped out fd0, how to reinstall it?

What is the driver for?

Do you mean that you erased /dev/fd0? Please give more detail on exactly what you did.

That is correct fd0 is gone, what I did is copied over it with the mouse driver. So yeah since it didn't work I just erased it. So I have the packages on cd anyone know which one has the driver and how to install just it?

fd0 is the number 1 floppy drive, driver in /dev

The items in /dev aren't drivers, they are devices. Links to physical and virtual pieces of hardware.

You mention that you copied over it with the mouse drivers, do you know specifically what you did, what steps you took?

It would be worth you running this command to see if it outputs anything useful:

dmesg | grep fd0

and

dmesg | grep floppy


This should tell you if its being detected at boot up.

also if you cant remember what you typed - into your console type 'history' and it will show the list of commands you have run.

Often the devices under /dev are generated automatically at boot time. It is quite rare to find a modern Linux system that still has statically created devices that are prone to being removed. It's a bit of a Windows-response, but try rebooting.

I will give it a try. It may be a while before I can though. Thanks a bunch for the tips.
So where are the drivers located? Are they part of the kernel?

"Drivers" are called "modules" on Linux systems. They can be compiled into the kernel or as separate files.

So since I deleted fd0 how to put it back and link it?

Bill, I don't think you seem to be understanding. fd0 isn't a driver, it never will be a driver so don't worry about that.

What happens is you boot your PC, Linux detects the hardware and loads the devices it has device drivers/modules for and it populates /dev/fd0

If you don't get a /dev/fd0 I doubt its a driver problem unless it was a USB floppy drive then you might have a problem.


Here are a few URLs to read up on:

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups...5-10/0494.html

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/...threadId=99262

http://www.unix.com/hp-ux/46769-recr...-dev-null.html

Do NOT follow any of the steps in the above links, these are just other people asking about files under /dev

Lee Ball, I do understand. Can I just make an fd0 file or what ever and then it needs a like. Though since I haven't tried to run that pc yet it may do that at boot up. We'll see.

I think you'll be fine after a reboot. come back to us if its still missing yet the drive is physically in it.