On Friday 18 December 2009 09:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote:
Yes, thankfully. Floppy disks have no real place nowadays, they are
bulky, unreliable and store very little.
On the other hand, in some circumstances a boot manager on a floppy is still
the only way into a system recovery. I had to dig
On 12/21/2009 7:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On which topic, is there a make of USB stick that is more-or-less
guaranteed
to boot on any system? I haven't found one yet. Some will boot on this box,
some on that one, but none on any of them.
Well, first you need a box that supports booting
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:45:31 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled
by default.
But they're so useful...and the computer we got a year ago had one. Do
things really go obsolete like that after decades of prevalence?
Yes,
On 12/18/2009 4:32 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:45:31 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
For the same reason that support for punched card readers is disabled
by default.
But they're so useful...and the computer we got a year ago had one. Do
things really go obsolete
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I doing
wrong?
Marcus
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the /dev/fd0
device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block device
corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it and what am I doing wrong?
Willie Wong writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
device corresponding to my floppy drive. Where is it
On 12/17/2009 11:06 AM, Willie Wong wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the /dev/fd0
device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block device
corresponding to my floppy
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:04:37PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alex Schuster squawked:
Willie Wong writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner squawked:
The only floppy options I can find in the kernel relating to floppy drives
in the kernel config are mac floppy, amiga floppy, and atari floppy, none
of which apply to me. I believe I am using udev, and both the
On 12/17/2009 12:04 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
Willie Wong writes:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:53:21AM -0500, Penguin Lover Marcus Wanner
squawked:
I tried to mount a floppy disk in my ~x86 gentoo system, but the
/dev/fd0 device is not there. In other words, I can't find the block
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120
drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers - Block
devices - Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled as a module,
maybe you just need to modprobe
On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120
drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device Drivers - Block
devices - Normal floppy disk support. If it's compiled
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote:
On 12/17/2009 5:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:21:28 -0500, Marcus Wanner wrote:
It's not IDE (IDE/ATAPI floppy support is for things like LS-120
drives), but CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, found in Device
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