Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:29:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >[snip] > > >> > > >>If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. > > > > > >[Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... > > > > > >This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers have computers > > >with floppy drives in them. > > > > Thanks. ;-) I love my floppydrive. But am have trouble finding fresh > > floppies. > > I find that maxell and imation floppies work well. Then again, so do my > IBM PS/2 floppies from 1988. They don't make 'em like they used to
My /etc (presumably text files) piped through bzip2 is over 4 Mb. Other than Sneakernet use, moving source code or emails or documentation, what can you do with 1.44 Mb of space?!? I paid $25 two years ago for my (used) CD burner. At that price, why keep floppy drives around? I always found that reading them on another floppy drive was hit or miss; the tolerances were atrocious! I have enough CD backups to make it confusing. I can't imagine using floppies today. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]