From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RrXLI-00008x-VN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:11:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A5662E0998; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0804E0990 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:09:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9302EB45E for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:09:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mD1XspP9VxD7 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:09:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from ca.inter.net (unknown [216.99.60.123]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A5EE72EB463 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:09:42 -0500 (EST) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:09:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:09:42 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol Message-ID: <20120129160942.GA3047@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 2ea62f1a-ff8f-4430-b022-26dfc556b3e1 X-Archives-Hash: 0d7895f6027d41d6d1180e077ef8c3fc 120129 Dale wrote: > I got a friend that wants me to put Linux on his rig. > It has a floppy drive and he does use it for files he has on floppies. > How good is support nowadays? I haven't used diskettes for a couple of years, but when I did, 'mtools' was the pkg I used to use to manage them. Like your other advisor, I never automount devices (with Fluxbox), but goto my Root desktop & manually mount them from there. Mtools takes care of all that, however, for diskettes. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca