Thoughts on floppy disks

[Ryan Rix]

On Thu 10 June 2010 8:07:26 am Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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"?

please tell me this is a joke :)

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