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 1Rso49-0007IA-Pz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:14:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 480E8E0539; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:14:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D54DE058F for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:12:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 866231B401C for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:12:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.692 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.692 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.781, 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 VBAVWwOecFSg for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:12:34 +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 089381B400D for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 04:12:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rso27-0002ny-Di for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:12:27 +0100 Received: from athedsl-376539.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.22.217]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:12:27 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-376539.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:12:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:12:12 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> <4F258AAF.9090504@gmail.com> <4F26939E.3030003@kutulu.org> <4F2696A7.40407@hadt.biz> <006801ccdfc3$ff31c3d0$fd954b70$@kutulu.org> <4F281F48.5060008@hadt.biz> <20120131173027.GA27928@waltdnes.org> <73e6ccd61f22ed7435833eb0727d7604.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <4F28CF6B.4010507@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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-376539.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120109 Thunderbird/9.0 In-Reply-To: <4F28CF6B.4010507@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2a4caa80-e832-44ef-9452-03892f3b5848 X-Archives-Hash: e1d0d3727b67d9840f92f766a11a16f8 On 02/01/2012 07:36 AM, Dale wrote: > When 3.1 came out, I changed jobs. Swapping 15 floppies is no fun to > me. Funny, reinstalling fixed the problems back then and it still is > the best way to fix windoze. I installed a Windows 95 beta from floppies :-) Microsoft shipped them DMF formatted (1.68MB instead of 1.44MB) but still, they were way too many; around 30 disks or more. And before doing that, I had to make copies of every single one in case they go bad. Good times :-P