On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 2013-03-14 14:59 (GMT-0300) Cristian Rodríguez composed:
It is a really annoying considering that no one sane will ever use a floppy drive anymore. kernel-desktop should probably just ship with this thing disabled.
One need not be sane to run openSUSE on a PC. :-) More than 75% of the PCs I run Linux on have working floppy drives, including the two I run 24/7. They probably get used more often than the OM drives. I most often use them to save logs from failed test (Cauldron/Cooker/Factory/Rawhide) installations, and for booting DOS, like to upgrade a BIOS, diagnose a possible HD failure, or initialize a virgin HD.
You had me until this:
USB is a nuisance because the media provide no room to write anything useful on. If it fits a floppy, that's what I use instead of USB, assuming no available network.
So you're able to get more data onto a 1.44 MB floppy disk than you can a USB stick of gigabytes in size? How do you manage to accomplish this? Is there some other way to interpret what you've said here? -- Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org