Hi, On 7/5/11, François Revol <re...@free.fr> wrote: > Le mardi 05 juillet 2011 à 03:23 -0500, Rugxulo a écrit : >> >> > That's not helping a "hey >> > let's boot from floppy, configure internet access and install from >> > downloaded/mounted ISO file" >> >> Floppies just don't hold enough. Add to that the fact that they fail >> semi-frequently, and you have a lose/lose combination which makes >> everybody hate them (and soon they will be officially obsolete, ugh). > > http://www.torlus.com/floppy/
Good to know (SD card reader / USB floppy emulator hardware), but there's still probably some drawbacks. I've got a USB floppy drive, and it works with FreeDOS, but other non-BIOS-using OSes need special drivers for it (e.g. Minix3 won't work). Even WinXP I think only supports 1.44 MB (and not overformatted) re: USB floppy. But I did read that latest Haiku (BeOS clone) alpha supports USB floppy drives now. ;-) The real point is I think I'm one of the last to care about floppies. :-( Soon floppy images will really only be usable for emulators (which is better than nothing, but it's still annoying). P.S. I've noticed some people here (Bernd?) talking about 360 kb floppies as if they intend to (try to) support it for FreeDOS 1.1. I don't know, you can do whatever you want, but I honestly don't know of many people with anything less than 1.44 MB anymore. Anyways, Jim Hall has already indicated that floppies aren't interesting to him (both he and I agree they're almost dead, sadly), so I'm not sure he thinks it's worth wasting our time. (I just like making self-contained floppies for certain purposes, heh, e.g. that old Christmas Wolf4GW / Wolf4SDL one). Probably better / easier to just make a script to build one from scratch by downloading the appropriate tools first or just only publish bootup / config files.) Anyways .... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
