From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 22 10:14:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law-f107.hotmail.com [209.185.131.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2064237BF3A for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:14:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spider90@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 13997 invoked by uid 0); 22 Mar 2000 18:14:40 -0000 Message-ID: <20000322181440.13996.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 216.111.243.130 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:14:40 PST X-Originating-IP: [216.111.243.130] From: "spider 90" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: MAKEDEV, Permissions, and Floppy Drives Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:14:40 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yesterday I was working on trying to mount my Floppy drive. I sent an email and was advsd to make sre the /dev/fd0 is lsting in etc/fstab. I tried that but it wasnt there. So I read in complete freebsd that I would need to MAKEDEV fd0 but when I try that I get a message that say permission denied /usr/sbin. I worked for 2 hrs trying to read and figure out how to get past that but no success. I was root and in fact I have not set up any users yet. As root dont I have permission for everything? I did try mknod fd0 b 9 2 and it created a file fd0 but couldnt mount it at all. I believe all it did was create an empty file called fd0. Furthermore the MAKEDEV is suppossed to work, it is such a simply command to setup my floppy but cant get permission. Am I missing something very obvious here? Please if anyone can help me solve this headache I would appreciate it very much ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message