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 1RrXUr-0002zk-T4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:20:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CA58E09AA; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:20:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0714FE0995 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bke11 with SMTP id 11so642398bke.40 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:19:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=s2VDFOOG66dAjVsWvINGP/Y1BTIgqP2JTe7Nf11EuXM=; b=lpn5n0+Gu8HsuyQ0Rk8rZNApatujYrXEqF6od7EXiN9VRJLrI01tkmydZb4HCSyQgR wFdPMwAI3sUqIv3kSyeZ+ZvpPm/hKX/oHldqddfgpz7aZwIepauFG+EpvVUphtOpu/1V vgKM3jtBiwlXRghgQl/zlLpayZFnR9yiNCfxg= 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 Received: by 10.204.152.219 with SMTP id h27mr6981041bkw.40.1327853979073; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:19:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.205.124.129 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:19:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120129160942.GA3047@ca.inter.net> References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> <20120129160942.GA3047@ca.inter.net> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:19:39 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 3ff1d827-c235-46a6-bc3f-501177130c07 X-Archives-Hash: 9b16f781087136c9e001317903d71916 On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 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. mtools is what I recall poking floppies with, too. Well, that and 'superformat'. You can comfortably fit up to 2MB of data onto a "1.44MB IBM Formatted" disk. (The common formatting loses a lot to sector spacing overhead and the like.) -- :wq