Dave Houghton wrote: > Hi Jon > Thanks very much, Chris Morley sorted it out for me, the floppy is up and > running. > I have no idea what fdisk is or what it does, so unless some one told me to > use it I wouldn't. > It allows you to change the partition table on the hard drive. Fairly easy to corrupt the whole disk. > I only use 3.5" because they are there, mainly use for Gcode files. What do > you use in stead of floppies? I thought about using the usb ports do you > think that's a better idea. >
USB works fine, probably a lot more reliable in the shop environment. But, I use the network exclusively, unless it is enough stuff to require a CD, like a whole system update. Linux knows Samba as well as FTP. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
