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

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