[gentoo-user] Building kernel with floppy support

[gentoo-user] Building kernel with floppy support

[Shea Alterio]

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Hi everybody

I've got a mini form factor Pentium 4 I just acquired. I have a huge amount
of floppy disks to make backup images of as well as write to new floppies.
Yeah I know, floppies suck, but i thought i could use Gentoo on it to make
the process less painful. This is a plain internal floppy drive so not a
USB one.  Do you need build any packages with floppy support or just make
sure it's in the kernel? When i was doing some googling to see if i would
have issues trying to do floppy stuff with the latest kernels, it seemed
like that could be a potential issue.

I will do my main compiling on my main PC then send it to the P4 to keep it
from burning itself up. haha.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Building kernel with floppy support

[Andrew Savchenko]

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On Sun, 10 Jun 2018 05:01:51 -0400 Shea Alterio wrote:
> Hi everybody
> 
> I've got a mini form factor Pentium 4 I just acquired. I have a huge amount
> of floppy disks to make backup images of as well as write to new floppies.
> Yeah I know, floppies suck, but i thought i could use Gentoo on it to make
> the process less painful. This is a plain internal floppy drive so not a
> USB one.  Do you need build any packages with floppy support or just make
> sure it's in the kernel?

Just enable it in the kernel: COFNIG_BLK_DEV_FD will be sufficient
unless something rare like AMIGA/ATARI/MAC floppy is used, they
have separate config opttions.

If you want FAT tools, install sys-fs/dosfstools.

> When i was doing some googling to see if i would
> have issues trying to do floppy stuff with the latest kernels, it seemed
> like that could be a potential issue.

No, it works just fine.

> I will do my main compiling on my main PC then send it to the P4 to keep it
> from burning itself up. haha.


Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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