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 1RrUdo-0000wc-1H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:17:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DAF4E0997; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:17:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A0AE080D for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:16:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenr8 with SMTP id r8so1656088yen.40 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:16:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pO1bH+NUwnMTOeaoUfVZ3JnlxHukyiLuSc0URb4kfvU=; b=PKB2hR5o8LpdzZpIaeBN/9sCzzXF4vDx6N0wGyb3t8roe6co9WYYITtR5sipusQiDu z7yQM5IInFAeejfsZSx4GCsTctf19LV604Q0wH+jJL/5I4iiIRzCx7OBiKPBy3KN1V6F gbMH4lp62E4crbZnlzI9VXcvPfRbWXVZ3lPmc= Received: by 10.236.75.163 with SMTP id z23mr20371742yhd.79.1327843006988; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-147-47.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.147.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k9sm2024465ang.17.2012.01.29.05.16.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:16:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:16:44 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20120120 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ada5c287-52af-4df1-bc15-0e3a2de5e312 X-Archives-Hash: 5a87224677295068d96c9d159e02b8d0 Howdy, 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. I haven't used a floppy in a long time. How good is support nowadays? I will be putting KDE on it. Does it sort of automount or anything? Does it function anything like a CD/DVD? If I had a rig with a working floppy, I would just test this myself but the only system I have with one, the floppy drive died a long time ago. The little green light stayed on all the time so I unplugged it. I'm hoping someone here may still have one of these and can shed some light on this. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"