Thoughts on floppy disks

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/10/2010 08:33 PM, 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 ?
>   
I'm sorry.  Could you explain to me what is a "floppy disk"?



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