Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2013-07-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net | I take it you are referring to modern machines? This one was new in '81, I | think. Maybe '82.? I'm confused. What machine built in 1981 or 1982 can run Fedora? A recent enough one that you can file a BZ on (i.e. F17, F18, F19)? Heck, I

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2013-07-07 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I'm sorry about my last message. I got into a time warp and replied to a mesage from Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:26:48 -0500! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-22 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 20:36 +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required? JB I would

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 February 2010, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 20:36 +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media that is flexible

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 20:17:36 -0800, Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: Bruno: Thanks for the reply. Let me/us know what the bug ID is of what you end of submitting as I have this feeling it will all end up be related and a fix in one will impact the other. I created bug

What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-21 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media that is flexible enough to be updated as required? JB -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 20:36:09 +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.com wrote: I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media that is flexible enough to

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-21 Thread Ralph Blach
What is a floppy drive??? Well seriously, I think their are better options now. I used an 8 inch floppy a long time ago Chip n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote: I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-21 Thread Sam Sharpe
On 21 February 2010 22:23, Ralph Blach rcbl...@gmail.com wrote: I used an 8 inch floppy a long time ago *must* *resist* *smutty* *jokes* -- Sam -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 20:36:09 +, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 n2xssvv.g02gfr12...@ntlworld.com wrote: I've been using a floppy boot disk as reserve if my HD boot fails, But it appears floppy support as now been removed. Why? Then how can I create an emergency media

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 14:45:59 -0800, Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537741 I am already cc'd on that one. Though I suspect my issue is a udev one, not a nautilus one. P.S. I did get the wx8000s flashed, though the latest bios still

Re: What happened to floppy drive support?

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Allen Newell
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 14:45:59 -0800, Paul Allen Newell pnew...@cs.cmu.edu wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537741 I am already cc'd on that one. Though I suspect my issue is a udev one, not a nautilus one. P.S. I did get the wx8000s