Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?
Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@vianet.ca>:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:29:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > >[snip]
> > >>
> > >>If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package.
> > >
> > >[Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug...
> > >
> > >This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers have computers
> > >with floppy drives in them.
> >
> > Thanks. ;-) I love my floppydrive. But am have trouble finding fresh
> > floppies.
>
> I find that maxell and imation floppies work well. Then again, so do my
> IBM PS/2 floppies from 1988. They don't make 'em like they used to
My /etc (presumably text files) piped through bzip2 is over 4 Mb.
Other than Sneakernet use, moving source code or emails or
documentation, what can you do with 1.44 Mb of space?!? I paid $25
two years ago for my (used) CD burner. At that price, why keep floppy
drives around? I always found that reading them on another floppy
drive was hit or miss; the tolerances were atrocious!
I have enough CD backups to make it confusing. I can't imagine using
floppies today.
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