On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 05:01:51 -0400 Shea Alterio wrote: > Hi everybody > > I've got a mini form factor Pentium 4 I just acquired. I have a huge amount > of floppy disks to make backup images of as well as write to new floppies. > Yeah I know, floppies suck, but i thought i could use Gentoo on it to make > the process less painful. This is a plain internal floppy drive so not a > USB one. Do you need build any packages with floppy support or just make > sure it's in the kernel?
Just enable it in the kernel: COFNIG_BLK_DEV_FD will be sufficient unless something rare like AMIGA/ATARI/MAC floppy is used, they have separate config opttions. If you want FAT tools, install sys-fs/dosfstools. > When i was doing some googling to see if i would > have issues trying to do floppy stuff with the latest kernels, it seemed > like that could be a potential issue. No, it works just fine. > I will do my main compiling on my main PC then send it to the P4 to keep it > from burning itself up. haha. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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