reading ancient floppy formats

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 10:09 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com>
> 
> | On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:
> 
> | > Unfortunately, the setfdprm command was dropped from Fedora around
> | > Fedora Core 6.
> 
> | Have you tried what happens if you run Fedora Core 6 in a Virtualbox VM?
> 
> No.  That might or might not work, depending on how the floppy
> hardware is virtualized.  On the other hand, I could just boot
> whatever Fedora I wanted on the real hardware anyway.
> 
> Why was the command dropped?  Would it no longer work?  Is there
> another way provided to accomplish the same thing?
> 
> I think SuSE dropped the command too.  Debian and Ubuntu have it in the 
> fdutils package.

I would download the fdutils package from http://fdutils.linux.lu , try
to compile and install them, and (if that works) then see what happens.

jon