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On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> 120129 Dale wrote: |
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>> I got a friend that wants me to put Linux on his rig. |
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>> It has a floppy drive and he does use it for files he has on floppies. |
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>> How good is support nowadays? |
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> I haven't used diskettes for a couple of years, |
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> but when I did, 'mtools' was the pkg I used to use to manage them. |
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> Like your other advisor, I never automount devices (with Fluxbox), |
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> but goto my Root desktop & manually mount them from there. |
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> Mtools takes care of all that, however, for diskettes. |
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mtools is what I recall poking floppies with, too. Well, that and |
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'superformat'. You can comfortably fit up to 2MB of data onto a |
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"1.44MB IBM Formatted" disk. (The common formatting loses a lot to |
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sector spacing overhead and the like.) |
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