On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> 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
