Somewhat amusing floppy story

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Todd

Hi All,

A somewhat amusing story to share.

Now this is turn around. Usually I use Linux Live CDs
to help troubleshoot Windows computers. But his time
I fired up my Windows 7 PE disk to check if I had installed
a floppy drive in my new Linux server correctly. Seemed
like I had installed it correctly, but no floppy.
My floppy drive worked perfectly in w7 PE. So, I knew
the problem had to be software related.

I need my floppy drive for a script I use to create
f6 install disks for XP. The script allows me to write
a floppy image file (an ISO file for floppies) directly
to the drive as a raw block device and then does an
MD5SUM against the raw floppy and the image file. With
the quality of floppy disks these days being to so
low, it allows me to trust the disks I make up.

As it transpires, Red Hat Linux stopped automatically
supporting floppy drives in both Enterprise 6 and Fedora
Core 15 ("modprobe floppy" gets it back).

So, basically, I used Windows 7 to troubleshoot Linux
to create disks for custom installs of XP.
W7 --> Linux --> XP.

Which is what I found amusing. Mind you, not a lot
amusing, but sometimes, a little is enough.

I am having too much fun with this technology!

-T
 
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BillW50

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Todd said:
Hi All,

A somewhat amusing story to share.

Now this is turn around. Usually I use Linux Live CDs
to help troubleshoot Windows computers. But his time
I fired up my Windows 7 PE disk to check if I had installed
a floppy drive in my new Linux server correctly. Seemed
like I had installed it correctly, but no floppy.
My floppy drive worked perfectly in w7 PE. So, I knew
the problem had to be software related.

I need my floppy drive for a script I use to create
f6 install disks for XP. The script allows me to write
a floppy image file (an ISO file for floppies) directly
to the drive as a raw block device and then does an
MD5SUM against the raw floppy and the image file. With
the quality of floppy disks these days being to so
low, it allows me to trust the disks I make up.

As it transpires, Red Hat Linux stopped automatically
supporting floppy drives in both Enterprise 6 and Fedora
Core 15 ("modprobe floppy" gets it back).

So, basically, I used Windows 7 to troubleshoot Linux
to create disks for custom installs of XP.
W7 --> Linux --> XP.

Which is what I found amusing. Mind you, not a lot
amusing, but sometimes, a little is enough.

I am having too much fun with this technology!

-T
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No surprise to me. ;-)
 
T

Todd

On 06/26/2011 03:22 PM, BillW50 wrote:

Hi Bill,

All I got was a blank page. Please resend.

-T
 
G

Gordon

On 06/26/2011 03:22 PM, BillW50 wrote:

Hi Bill,

All I got was a blank page. Please resend.

-T
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That's all you ever get from BillW50 - blanks. Especially in his brain
(or what's left of it).
 
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Ed Cryer

That's a bad sign. If it isn't making you miserable, you are doing
something wrong.
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I get lots of fun from it as well. And the best fun of all comes from
pushing it to the limits, having it crash, and then sort it out.

Ed
 
D

Dave \Crash\ Dummy

Ed said:
I get lots of fun from it as well. And the best fun of all comes from
pushing it to the limits, having it crash, and then sort it out.
Click to expand...
Some of us are sicker than others. :)
 
T

Todd

That's a bad sign. If it isn't making you miserable, you are doing
something wrong.
Click to expand...
Dave,

It is only miserable until the insanity sets in. But,
don't despair, you will catch up to me eventually!

-T
 
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