Mounting Floppies
Basil Chupin
blchupin at iinet.net.au
Thu Nov 4 05:21:07 GMT 2010
On 04/11/2010 15:42, Paul Gear wrote:
> On 04/11/10 09:13, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
>
>> If you just want to get some stuff of floppy, just use mtools.
>> Don't bother mounting
>>
> This is good advice. Get the stuff off with mtools, then forget about
> the floppies! :-)
>
Normally would be the case and therefore good advice.
But not everybody runs the latest and greatest pieces of equipment - nor
want to. There are still some systems running Linux systems - like one
of my computers - which require to use the floppy to do a BIOS upgrade.
BC
--
Gumperson's Law: The probability of anything happening is in
inverse proportion to its desirability.
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