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From: Hartmut Figge <h.figge@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:46:07
Message-Id: 4F254D3D.9010402@hfigge.myfqdn.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol by Dale
1 Dale:
2
3 >I got a friend that wants me to put Linux on his rig. It has a floppy
4 >drive and he does use it for files he has on floppies. I haven't used a
5 >floppy in a long time. How good is support nowadays?
6
7 hafi@i5_64 ~ $ mount /mnt/floppy/
8 mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
9
10 Works good as always. Sometimes i look on old treasures. For 5.25" i
11 must use my old machine, because my new one vhas only a 3.5" drive.
12
13 >I will be putting KDE on it. Does it sort of automount or anything?
14
15 I do not use automount. Or KDE. Or Gnome. Or XFCE... ;)
16
17 >Does it function anything like a CD/DVD?
18
19 I am mounting a CD/DVD manually too. :-D
20
21 Hartmut
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