Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 10 June 2010, Mike McCarty wrote: >Timothy Murphy wrote: > >[...] > >> Do floppy disks still exist? > >Yes, I've got several hundred. > And I have at least 2,000 or more, mostly 5.25" formatted for os9 (no not the mac os9, the trs-80 Color Computer version.) >> Are computers with flop

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Timothy Murphy writes: I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide to setup a pxeboot server, and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt . (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seems to b

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Mike McCarty
Timothy Murphy wrote: [...] > Do floppy disks still exist? Yes, I've got several hundred. > Are computers with floppy drives still being made? Yes. Recently I bought one which didn't have a floppy drive, and I put one in. > It seems to me that as an absolute minimum > any documentation mentio

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> It seems to me that as an absolute minimum >> any documentation mentioning floppy drives >> should at least explain how CDs can be used to the same end. >> > Should we read this as "I am starting a crusade to research the proper

Re: Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
Timothy Murphy wrote: > I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide > to setup a pxeboot server, > and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation > in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt . > (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seem

Thoughts on floppy disks

2010-06-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide to setup a pxeboot server, and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt . (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seems to be a typo.) In any case, t