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| | Floppy Disk Drive Primer |
 | | Floppy disk drives were originally introduced commercially as a read-only device to hold microcode and diagnostics for large IBM mainframe computer systems in the early 1970s. | | | The computer's floppy controller relies on this sensor to establish a starting point from which all other tracks are referenced. | | | This is important because we all rely on our floppy drives whenever we move any data or programs in or out of our computers using diskettes. |
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| | Annoyances.org - Win98 can't read Win95 floppies (Windows 98 Discussion Forum) |
| | I do not believe the floppies are bad, and I have had trouble in the past going from one computer to another with a floppy disk. | | | These are new floppies formatted in Windows 95 on a Toshiba laptop. | | | >floppies are bad, and I have had trouble in the past going from one computer to another |
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| | What is floppy disk? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | Floppy disks are slower to access than hard disks and have less storage capacity, but they are much less expensive. | | | This type of floppy is generally capable of storing between 100K and 1.2MB (megabytes) of data. | | | Unlike most hard disks, floppy disks (often called floppies or diskettes) are portable, because you can remove them from a disk drive. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/f/floppy_disk.html
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| | Die Flip-Flops mit dem orthopädischen Fußbett |
| | Floppies, for, you, Floppies for you, Flip, Flop, Flops, Flip Flop, Flip-Flop, Flip-Flops, Badeschlappen, Schuhe, Sandalen, Badesandale, Badesandalen, Schuh, bequeme, trendige, leichte, gesunde, ausgefallene, modische, individuelle, handgefertigte, maßgefertigte, Sommerschuhe, Fußbett, Zehensandale, Einlagen, CNC, gefräste, orthopädische, Schlappen, Badelatschen |
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| | Floppies - Andamooka Reader |
| | The names for floppy drives are complex, however, and Linux therefore has a special floppy device type that automatically detects the type of the disk in the drive. | | | A floppy corresponds to one platter in a hard disk, but is removable and one drive can be used to access different floppies, whereas the hard disk is one indivisible unit. | | | The floppy disk itself doesn't have a read-write head, that is included in the drive. |
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http://www.andamooka.org/reader.pl?pgid=sagx794
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| | Floppies? Musings |
| | The floppy was developed when computer data and memory were measured in bytes, not gigabytes, and when using a computer required rudimentary programming skills. | | | But computer users have a strong connection to the floppy disk, a 3.5-inch square sandwich of plastic, aluminum and magnetic tape that hit the market in 1984, long before widespread adoption of the personal computer. | | | Dell Computer Corp. wants to wean computer users from the floppy drive, a beloved but often little-used technology that predates the personal computer itself. |
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http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000097.html
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| | Unix/Linux Basics |
| | Such a file is often a floppy image: that is, it is the bytes that tar or cpio would write directly to the floppy. | | | Windows and DOS people are used to using floppy drives as file systems. | | | Unix folk are more apt to use floppies like you'd use a tape (Unix floppies CAN be used the Windows way, it's just not typical). |
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http://aplawrence.com/Basics/floppy.html
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| | Floppies: Technology of the past? |
| | Floppies are so common that most homes and offices have a box of old floppies to be used like scrap paper. | | | Few computer users are willing to learn how to cut up large files to fit them on several floppies. | | | Compare that to less than $1 for a floppy. |
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http://www.enquirer.com/columns/brewer/1998/08/082398cb.html
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| | Dell foments floppy's fall Tech News on ZDNet |
| | Floppies were thought to be threatened by the NetPC and legacy-free PC movements spawned by Compaq Computer's original iPaq desktop PC. | | | Although the floppy may no longer be a technological necessity, Dell executives concede that it may still be important to some customers to have one--a security blanket for their PC. | | | Ultimately, "we think the usage (of floppies) will decline to such a level that an external floppy with a USB interface—that can be used for several PCs—will be acceptable," Schwarzbach said. |
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http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-983596.html
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| | wild, uncertain 2K floppies - Cyber Tech Help Support Forums |
| | The floppies functioned fine when they were XP machines. | | | What is going on might be that the motherboard is not compatable with the floppy controller in 2K (since both computers are the same brand it's suspicious). | | | My First thought was the floppy controller is having an IRQ conflict, althought that seems almost too simple. |
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http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29732
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| | Floppies hard-up for work - PCStats.com |
| | One of the reasons floppies are not the most reliable means of storing information is that the read-write heads must come into physical contact with the media, which causes wear and tear. | | | Another reason floppies are unstable is the mechanism that drives the read-write heads across their surface. | | | When you insert a floppy into your computer's disk drive, a mechanism retracts the metal sheath that protects the media, so that it becomes exposed to the drive's read-write heads. |
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http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=382
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| | Floppies for the New Millennium Linux Journal |
| | Floppies themselves are obsolete on account of low capacity, speed and reliability, but the need exists more than ever for impromptu file transport between machines, especially for those of us who travel about with laptops. | | | Because it solves the same problems we used to solve with floppy disks, updated to modern performance and capacity standards. | | | ARMD devices are basically big floppy disks, which per the spec have no partition table. |
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| | YoLinux Tutorial- Using DOS Floppies with Linux |
| | Typically a formatted floppy diskette with a filesystem requires the diskette to be mounted before use. | | | It is a prerequisite however that the floppy have a DOS filesystem formatted on the diskette if it is to read from or written to. | | | The pre-defined floppy configurations are specified in floppy disk parameter table in |
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| | Files, Floppies and Flash! - Connections 2002 August Issue |
| | In our current NIEHS network environment I see some floppy holdouts peddling their file from computer to computer without knowing that the file can be easily transferred from any computer to another with a few clicks. | | | Small "Floppy Disk" technology is now 20+ years old and, although it has been imitated by other bigger or better magnetic and optical removable storage devices such as Zip and SyQuest, it refuses to die. | | | We are accustomed to using floppies for file backup and transfers. |
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http://www.niehs.nih.gov/connections/2002/aug/floppy.htm
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| | Windows 98: can I install windows 98 from floppies? |
| | PS: Windows 95 did come in floppy or CD, but unless I can't remember correctly, Windows 98 and higher are not available on Floppy, just CD, or an OEM image on new machines. | | | I tried installing a W95 version from floppies, but it turned out to be an upgrade version to 3.11, so it was of no use to me at all. | | | You have to pop the drive out of your computer to connect to this adapter, then to another computer with a CD drive. |
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http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Win98/Q_20586920.html
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| | HOWTO: Creating SADR Floppies on a Non-Target Computer |
| | When a disaster has occurred and the boot floppies have not been created prior to the disaster, then boot floppies need to be created on a different computer. | | | HOWTO: Creating SADR Floppies on a Non-Target Computer | | | With the *.sy_ file from an original floppy or CD, you can expand the files manually, and then when you run the boot floppy utility you can select those drivers even though they aren't installed into that operating system. |
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http://www.ultrabac.com/kb6/htm/UBQ000157.htm
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| | ATPM 4.09 - Paradigm: Disk Copy—Not Just For Floppies |
| | If a floppy disk is ejected, its contents are grayed out; trying to open one of its files then asks you to insert the floppy (rather than summoning a cryptic error message)—all part of the Mac’s polish. | | | The lack of a floppy drive is the iMac’s single boldest “feature.” (Hey, it is documented.) Soon, the few pieces of Mac software that still ship on floppies will switch over to CD-ROMs. | | | From the beginning, the Mac could identify which floppy was which, then ask you to insert the proper one by name. |
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http://www.atpm.com/4.09/page8.shtml
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| | Boot Floppies |
| | This is a boot floppy that will allow you to access most CD ROM's. | | | These need to be from the same version of DOS use used to format the floppy. | | | You can use this floppy to boot if you were getting errors like NTLDR not found. |
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http://www.onecomputerguy.com/install/floppies.htm
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| | SuSE Linux Portal |
| | If a ZIP floppy should be used with the ext2 file system, it should be on the first primary partition. | | | If a ZIP floppy should be used with a MS-DOS file system, it should be contained on the 4th primary partition. | | | If a floppy is prepared according to the rules given above, using mount reveals whether it is an MS-DOS or a Linux floppy: If an error occurs, it is the wrong file system. |
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| | W95 Floppies |
| | MaxiDisk creates a DMF format on a floppy disk which increases the available space on the disk to 1.7 mb; however, there is overhead involved and the usable space is 1.66 mb. | | | This procedure will not work with the upgrade version of W95 because the.cab files are too large. | | | You will need a program like MaxiDisk available from |
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| | `Span Floppies' backup/restore |
| | The need to backup large files on floppy disks, and not have to depend upon the Windows or MS-DOS version, is accomplished with `Span Floppies'. | | | 'Span Floppies' is a program that allows you to backup and restore a file that spans multiple floppy disks. | | | The series of programs in `Span Floppies' are DOS programs. |
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http://www.argileconsulting.com/prodspan.htm
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| | The FreeBSD Diary -- Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD |
| | However, you can create a single floppy if you use one of those high capacity floppies. | | | If you are creating floppies from DOS, and you get told a file is too big, you probably downloaded the file in ASCII mode, not binary mode. | | | Note that the files you are copying are not DOS files so you can not use regular copy procedures to put them on the floppy. |
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| | Windows 95: Can you make a floppies from a Win 95 CD for reinstallation. |
| | The original Win95 floppy set was 13 disks, but I checked my CD of Win95OSR2 and there was 28 cab files, I know the floppy set does not include everything that the CD did and I am not sure how many Cab files were on the Win95a CD, I was just wondering for future references. | | | Besides creating a huge zip file on a ton of 1.44 floppies and risking corruption, is there a way to create a complete set of floppies for a Windows 95 installation. | | | This information is from a regular Floppy disk set from Microsoft, I have never actually made a set from a CD, but I have heard this can be done, as long as you know what files to include and you have the CD-Rom. |
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http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Win95_3x/Win95/Q_10341411.html
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| | Accessing CD's and Floppies from Linux |
| | If the floppy was formatted for Windows, it will fail with an error because it is the wrong file system type. | | | This is because there are two types of floppies I may want to use, those formatted under Linux and those formatted under Windows. | | | The only other file systems you might run into are "msdos" (obvious) and "minix", which is sometimes used for boot floppies because it is more efficient on small file systems than ext2. |
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| | Floppies, Zips, CDs and Whatever Comes Next |
| | Floppies of course continued to be supported in desktop Mac models until the introduction of the Blue & White G3 Towers in January, 1999, and a floppy drive was also available as an optional expansion bay device in the WallStreet PowerBook until the release of the Lombard G3 a year after the iMac& debut. | | | The Zip 100 MB and 250 MB disks were fairly logical successors to the old 1.4 MB floppy, but it’s still impossible to beat the economy and convenience of the floppy disk for quick transfers of small files, especially if they need to be sent away. | | | And indeed, third-party floppy drive solutions continued to be available long after that. |
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| | Howstuffworks "How Floppy Disk Drives Work" |
| | The floppy disk drive (FDD) was the primary means of adding data to a computer until the CD-ROM drive became popular. | | | If you have spent any time at all working with a computer, then chances are good that you have used a floppy disk at some point. | | | Basically, a floppy disk drive reads and writes data to a small, circular piece of metal-coated plastic similar to audio cassette tape. |
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| | Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Installing Gentoo With Slackware Floppies |
| | So you can boot using this floppy and you'll be able to tell it to boot the Gentoo CD on older computer with a BIOS that won't let you boot from the CD-Rom. | | | Anyway, thanks for the little piece on installing from floppy, as my cd-drive doesn't work when support for its chipset is enabled, thus I can't install from any cd which I boot with a kernel with support for it... | | | Which you need since the Slack floppies don't have bzip2. |
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| | SuperDisk drive can handle regular 120M floppies |
| | But the fact is that ordinary floppies are still the global standard for swapping files. | | | Just imagine not having to search through all those stacks of floppies around your computer for the one file you need. | | | The SuperDisk performed as flawlessly as a regular floppy drive and can handle 83 times as much data. |
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| | Virtual Dr Forums-Computer Tech Support - copying floppies from Win 95 to XP |
| | Unlike hard disk drives, which are sealed and have their read/write heads in a controlled environment, floppy disk drives are exposed to the outside air, and all the contaminants that go with it. | | | One maintenance activity that used to be part of the routine for floppy disks was to check and adjust their alignment. | | | In addition, the inside of the floppy disk drive should be cleaned of dust as well, since it can accumulate on other components. |
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| | BYTE Articles - Dr Trevor Marshall |
| | The device that handles DMF floppies is /dev/fd0u1680, while MDF floppies use /dev/fd0u1722. | | | is a special read-only format for 3.5-inch floppy disks that permits storage of 1.7 MB of data"). | | | Microsoft uses this format only for distribution of its own software, and it is essentially undocumented (a search of Microsoft's developer database elicits only the information that "DMF... |
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| | DVDs are Floppies: Corante > Moore's Lore > |
| | Opticals are floppies because committees are a government process, while hard drives are an entrepreneurial process, and the latter is always going to be quicker to market. | | | With floppies, CDs, and DVDs, "the interface was the device" or "the device was the interface" (to butcher the Sun slogan). | | | Opticals are floppies not just because hard drive technology is following Moore faster than optics. |
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| | Linux.com - Make boot floppies |
| | Remember that Debian and SuSE has one ramdisk floppy. | | | For Debian, we need a boot floppy and one ramdisk floppy. | | | On some systems you may have to be root to write directly to the floppy drive. |
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| | floppies8inch |
| | The 8" floppy disk (diskette) was introduced by IBM in the late 1960's. | | | Note that in floppy drives there is no provision for automatic alignment of the read/write head with the tracks (as is usually the case in hard disks); head positioning is done by an open-loop system. | | | Obviously an open write-protect notch was only effective in floppy drives equipped with the appropriate optical sensor. |
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| | Boot Floppies Failure in Woody - Debian Planet |
| | I've used the compact 3.0.14 floppies for a few weeks now on several machines and haven't had this problem. | | | I was lazy and wanted to make the fewest floppies possible. | | | I used just the rescue and root floppies last night to install debian woody down the net and it worked a treat. |
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http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=446
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| | Dave Burke's Blog : From a thousand floppies to seven |
| | Truthfully, it wasn't until DAO came out with VB 3.0 that I figured it was a viable development tool because then it could support databases and be used for real business application programming, not just games and cute graphics routines. | | | I trashed all of them, since my floppy drive could not read a single one. | | | I'm pretty sure the two 5 1/4" floppies are in the treasures box, alas not originals though. |
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| | HFI5 |
| | NEVER stick a floppy disk into a drive if the floppy light is continuously lit because it will render the floppy unreadable. | | | For detailed installation procedure for common floppy drives, see our "How to install a Tyan motherboard" walk-through. | | | 1.5 My floppy drive light stays on all the time and I can't read any floppies |
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| | missing 2kb on floppies |
| | One thing that adds more files to a floppy in MacOS is double-clicking on the disk to open it's window -- this creates a few files, one of which is the OpenFoldersListDF_ which keeps track of which windows were open when you eject the disk. | | | I'm about to mess with a file util and see if there isn't a way to delete more of the floppies. | | | So after formatting a disk or inserting into the Mac, don't open it -- try copying directly to the disk icon and not into a window which I think will prevent a few files from eating up space. |
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| | 2.1.4.4.1 Creating the boot and root floppies |
| | Note that these two floppies will no longer be readable by MS-DOS (they are ``Linux format'' floppies, in some sense). | | | You must create floppies from the bootdisk and rootdisk images that you downloaded (or have on CD-ROM), no matter what type of installation you will be doing. | | | When you're done, you'll have two floppies: one containing the boot disk, the other containing the root disk. |
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http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~radionet/nuc1996/ref/lig/node61.html
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| | Wired News: News Flash: Floppies Are Not Dead |
| | Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries, better known in the United States as Panasonic, has developed a new SuperDisk drive that can cram up to 32 MB of data onto a standard 1.44MB floppy diskette. | | | "The FD32MB system will enable people to find a use for all the floppies they have that they thought were useless," said Yoko Fukusaki, a Matsushita spokesperson. | | | But floppies, well God bless 'em -- floppies hardly ever fail." |
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| | TechIMO Forums - Wasted Floppies |
| | If I need to find more floppies, I spend around 10 minutes in a stack of used floppies until I find an empty one. | | | As for the unlabeled floppy question, I just hope there's nothing on them and use them for whatever I need. | | | I have a pair of 8" floppies and a bunch of 5.25s and 3.5s. |
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| | DriverHeaven.net - How many still have old 3 1/4 in Floppies? |
| | Just about the only thing I need a floppy for anymore is for the occasional system reboot when all else fails. | | | Technically, with the newer systems, since you can set up the computer to boot from a CD ROM, the floppy isn't really 'necessary' anymore. | | | I've been at 'computing for the fun of it' since the early 80's. |
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http://www.driverheaven.net/printthread.php?t=18546
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| | Copying a driver file on two floppies |
| | I need to copy a Win 98 driver file for a Belkin NIC card on two floppies for my boss, who has a Windows 98 system. | | | Of course, the file comes in at just over 1.5 mb, so it needs to go on two floppies. | | | Copying a driver file on two floppies (1/1) |
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| | kickstart-me - AIMS utility to avoid usage of boot floppies |
| | This is done by copying the boot floppy image contents to the hard drive and setting up the machine bootloader (grub or lilo) to boot straight from there. | | | This program should be run as 'root' on the machine to be reinstalled with AIMS. | | | Kickstart-me script prepares machine for booting straight into kickstart installation from its hard drive avoiding the need for making installation boot floppy. |
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| | CD-ROM's and Floppies in Solaris (ResearchIndex) |
| | In particular, mounting a CD-ROM or floppy requires super-user privilege, as well as knowledge about what file system type is on the medium. | | | Abstract: Since Sun has been supplying CD-ROM and floppy drives with our hardware, customers have been commenting on how difficult it is to use them. | | | Introduction The UNIX interface to removable media (floppys, tapes, etc) has... |
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http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/431604.html
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| | Syllable - 0.5.4 boot floppies/images |
| | In order for me to update anything on those floppies I would have to update libsyllable, the appserver, libc, the kernel...all of it, in fact. | | | Trying to cram all of that onto three floppy disks is official Not Fun, and I don't really want to torture myself doing it. | | | Depedning on what you need exactly, the 0.5.3 boot floppies will almost certainly work for you. |
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| | Installing SuSE 9.0 from the Network via Boot Floppies Linux Gazette |
| | Once you've written at least bootdisk, modules1, modules3, and modules4, place bootdisk in the floppy drive of the computer you wish to install SuSE 9.0 on, and boot it up. | | | Once you have all of those that you need stored in a local directory, you can write them to the floppies one at a time. | | | If not, do a full format on a different machine, checking for bad sectors, etc, and you'll most likely see that it's a bad floppy. |
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http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/view/9275
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| | [Tfug] Debian Install from Floppies |
| | I read in the docs (see link above) that you should be able to boot a single boot floppy and then point to, say, the cdrom for the irest of the installation files. | | | When I made my wife's dual boot system the other day, I had no cdrom at all and just downloaded the root/boot images to the win2k partition, booted a win98 boot floppy with loadlin on it, booted the debian installer, and did a net install. | | | Anyway, I would recommend the boot floppies and then do a net install. |
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| | Backups to Floppies |
| | Alternatively, if you know which floppy the file is on then you can simply insert that floppy and use the same command as above. | | | However, if you have no other method of backing up your data then floppy disks are better than no backup at all. | | | Note that if the first file on the floppy is a continuation from the previous one then |
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