I have to ask, what do you need a floppy disk for during installation? If it's a Anaconda update or a driver disk, then it can be merged onto the CD or into the network installation tree. James James S. Martin, RHCE Contractor Administrative Office of the United States Courts Washington, DC (202) 502-2394 anaconda-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/09/2006 07:26:18 PM: > Hello > I am posting this question as it is during first stage of install > time( anaconda) i need to mount the USB floppy diskette. > I want to mount the usb-floppy during install time when UDEV is not > active yet. I am doing this immediately after loading the 'USB Mass > storage driver for linux" during install time. After i insert USB > drive. In dmesg i see "SCSI device sda .." "attached scsi removable > disk at scsi1" > > I don't see any /dev/sda though. And so i can't mount this USB drive. > > I tried to run mknod manually to create /dev/sda but i had no idea > what major number it should be. > > Also after inserting SUB the /proc/devices does'nt change. > > Please provide some ideas. I want to access that USB as a file > system during the "First stage of installation of linux distributions" > > thanks > --vikas aggarwal _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
