Thoughts on floppy disks

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:33 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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 seems to be a typo.)
> > 
> > In any case, this document, which is dated 1994-2009,
> > seems to be entirely concerned with "CREATING A BOOTABLE LINUX FLOPPY".
> 
> Apologies for sending this mild rant to the wrong newsgroup.
> I tried cancelling it, but was told I could not do this
> as I was not the author ...
> Probably a bye-product of using gmane ?

Or possibly a by-product of this being a mailing list rather than a
newsgroup? Or is it both?

poc