WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat! - UPDATE

[Basil Chupin]

On 27/09/2010 14:44, Chadley Wilson wrote:


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> [>] To the OP.
> I have read briefly though the mail threads, and regarding you floppy drive, since a floppy drive is 5 1/4 inch, and you want to flash your bios, I assume you mean a 1.44 stiffy drive.
>   I find it very strange that a person with your skills cannot take a stiffy disk image and make your memory stick bootable with it to flash your bios.
> We have been doing this for years. If you don't have a memory stick, then all I can suggest is that you go and get one. Afterwards, I highly recommend you donate you stiffy drive to your garbage bin.
>
> Why oh why would you want such an unreliable piece of junk in your machine? flashing the bios is not rocket science and if you run Linux you can even do it with PXE boot. No media even better.
>    

The BIOS wants to be flashed with the *bin file sitting on a Windows 'C' 
drive of an HD and with the computer booted into DOS - but *NOT* the DOS 
mode in Windows. Since the motherboard will not accept an HD for some 
damn reason this choice is out. (Besides I don't have Windows.)

Or the BIOS wants to be flashed with the *bin file on a floppy sitting 
in drive A where the built-in flasher in the BIOS expects to find the 
*bin file.

Does this answer your very helpful contribution to this thread?

Oh, and don't forget to write a letter to the Canonical and the devs to 
stop using "floppy" to describe /dev/fd0. Post a copy of the text of 
your letter re this in this forum, OK?

BC

PS

Your observation, "why would you want such an unreliable piece of junk 
in your machine" reminded me of the following...

A woman goes into a green grocer store which specialises in totally 
organic vegetables. She wants to buy an organic pumpkin. Sees one which 
she likes and asks the store keeper how much it costs. He replies, 
"$40". She tells him, "Take that pumpkin and shove it up your arse!". He 
responds, "Sorry can't do that. I already have a $20 cabbage in there."

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