From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:44:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912220044.06569.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091218093212.23ebf629@digimed.co.uk>
On Friday 18 December 2009 09:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Yes, thankfully. Floppy disks have no real place nowadays, they are
> bulky, unreliable and store very little.
On the other hand, in some circumstances a boot manager on a floppy is still
the only way into a system recovery. I had to dig out a USB floppy drive to
do this just the other day. Boot Magic Rescue, I think it was.
On which topic, is there a make of USB stick that is more-or-less guaranteed
to boot on any system? I haven't found one yet. Some will boot on this box,
some on that one, but none on any of them.
--
Rgds
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-22 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-17 15:53 [gentoo-user] Where is my /dev/fd0? Marcus Wanner
2009-12-17 16:06 ` Willie Wong
2009-12-17 17:04 ` Alex Schuster
2009-12-17 19:59 ` Willie Wong
2009-12-17 21:21 ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-17 22:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-18 0:45 ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-18 4:17 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-12-18 9:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-12-18 17:22 ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-22 0:44 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2009-12-22 19:18 ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-17 17:04 ` Marcus Wanner
2009-12-17 20:06 ` Willie Wong
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