scarecrow Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 What's a floppy drive? I have STILL one on my main box, and one at my download machine, but both are disconnected. They simply stay there cause I do not know how to fill the slot they will leave empty after being removed. A small USB stick retalis for less than twenty bucks, and can hold more than 180 floppies... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 I still use floppies for e.g. creating rescue-bootdisks. Furthermore, I have some 200 floppies around here that want to be used in one way or the other. Sweet memories... :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 But couldn't those 200 memories fit more nicely on half a CD? :) <offtopic> Relating to another thread about formatting USB sticks, is it true that you have to be root to format a floppy disk? I only got my first linux system a year ago and since then haven't had a floppy drive. I find it odd that you have to be root to (re)format a USB stick, but maybe it's the same for floppy disks? </offtopic> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Relating to another thread about formatting USB sticks, is it true that you have to be root to format a floppy disk? I only got my first linux system a year ago and since then haven't had a floppy drive. I find it odd that you have to be root to (re)format a USB stick, but maybe it's the same for floppy disks? Nope, no need to be root to format a floppy. In KDE, you could use kfloppy as a regular user, choosing for example a DOS or ext2 filesystem. Or you could use the command line and do an fdformat /dev/fd0 to low-level format the floppy, then you could put a file system on it with commands like mformat a: or mkdosfs /dev/fd0 or /sbin/mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 I used to remember playing games from floppy disks, such as F19 Stealth Fighter! Only floppy to play on! Now look at em, gigabytes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 Well I have tried various combinations of entry in fstab and none have made the slightest bit of difference :huh: Guess I'll just have to keep on trying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted August 2, 2006 Report Share Posted August 2, 2006 I used to remember playing games from floppy disks, such as F19 Stealth Fighter! Only floppy to play on! Now look at em, gigabytes! Try this: http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger download, disconnect from the internet, install and play..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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