From: James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:14:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+hid6GjkYfcYAFNuQA6ugD9zYYUxwywqgPLHuvHREM1OSZp7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F2696A7.40407@hadt.biz>
On 30 January 2012 13:09, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@hadt.biz> wrote:
>> Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
>> actually work:
>>
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx
From the comments:
Barry Kelly: "Win95 Setup *does* make the floppy drive grind, though,
as have all versions of Windows Setup from 95 through to XP. (Speaking
as an ex hardware technician who installed Windows hundreds of times.)
Specifically, it makes the grinding noise when it's setting up the
Start Menu items for the first time (it says). I personally suspect
it's because it's creating the "Send To" shortcut, but that's only my
suspicion."
Honestly, given that it's a single bit check per hardware change, it
doesn't seem like all that challenging of a feature. We could have had
autorun.inf viruses almost 5 years earlier!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-30 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 13:16 [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol Dale
2012-01-29 13:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Hartmut Figge
2012-01-29 16:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2012-01-29 16:19 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 17:19 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-01-29 18:06 ` Dale
2012-01-29 18:14 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 19:02 ` Dale
2012-01-29 19:09 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-29 19:27 ` Mick
2012-01-29 20:04 ` Dale
2012-01-29 22:08 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-01-29 22:41 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 23:41 ` walt
2012-01-29 23:46 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 0:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-30 0:16 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 1:29 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 3:40 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 4:23 ` David Relson
2012-01-30 11:48 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-30 20:52 ` Dale
2012-01-30 5:07 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-01-30 9:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 9:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 13:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 12:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 13:09 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-30 13:14 ` James Broadhead [this message]
2012-01-31 3:25 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 21:20 ` Dale
2012-01-31 0:29 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-31 2:56 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-31 17:00 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:05 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:30 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-31 23:10 ` wdk@moriah
2012-02-01 5:15 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-01 5:36 ` Dale
2012-02-01 11:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-01 13:41 ` Dale
2012-02-02 1:01 ` Walter Dnes
2012-02-02 2:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-02 3:33 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-02-02 4:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-02 7:54 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2012-02-02 9:17 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-02-02 16:26 ` Paul Hartman
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