floppy support

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> said:
> On 08/29/2011 10:22 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> > It is very irritating, since I only use floppies when I really need to,
> 
> Is this due to the need to boot into DOS to run a firmware utility or 
> something similar? If so, you can create a bootable, DOS USB flash 
> drive. I haven't had a need for a floppy disk in years.

That's nice that you haven't needed one, but I have.  I try all kinds of
alternatives first (up to PXE booting syslinux to load memdisk and a
floppy image), but I have run into things that just really need an
actual floppy.

It isn't why I use floppies under Linux, but my mother's very expensive
computerized embroidery machine uses floppies to transfer patterns.
There are still things in the real world that exclusively use floppy
disks, and they aren't going away as rapidly as some seem to think.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.