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