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 1RrV54-0007ef-Ul for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:46:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29DFBE0974; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2023E08DA for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:44:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914D91B405E for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:44:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.091 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.091 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.180, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id agP_JT6hUhHZ for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:44:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2D731B4048 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:44:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RrV3g-0007Sw-A6 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:44:40 +0100 Received: from dsdf-5d82fa71.pool.mediaways.net ([93.130.250.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:44:40 +0100 Received: from h.figge by dsdf-5d82fa71.pool.mediaways.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:44:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Hartmut Figge Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:44:29 +0100 Organization: O:-) Message-ID: <4F254D3D.9010402@hfigge.myfqdn.de> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsdf-5d82fa71.pool.mediaways.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20120129 SeaMonkey/2.9a1-h X-Face: $CBwo]?gT/(aX1*<~b:KguIwP2;rTO6mTb}1[p]o#_a!CNQ3(i*|ONJ%*wiE8}p%x-Sn|g,N2WIvecq5}Q.q/q<&`!yK2Q03Hv'z<9b12*!e>o0IX"~RFen>)mXi;A??8pfYc>ZFR%t){Pm<;K.@W2B}dyhzT`ku[ZZ.`XX)B&zs@S]y/[\8HAH-$@`>N;Mz=88Z9ipZqV#"dbp9X\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? hafi@i5_64 ~ $ mount /mnt/floppy/ mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only Works good as always. Sometimes i look on old treasures. For 5.25" i must use my old machine, because my new one vhas only a 3.5" drive. >I will be putting KDE on it. Does it sort of automount or anything? I do not use automount. Or KDE. Or Gnome. Or XFCE... ;) >Does it function anything like a CD/DVD? I am mounting a CD/DVD manually too. :-D Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)