Somewhat amusing floppy story

Hi All,

A somewhat amusing story to share.

Now this is turn around. Usually I use Linux Live CDs
to help troubleshoot Windows computers. But his time
I fired up my Windows 7 PE disk to check if I had installed
a floppy drive in my new Linux server correctly. Seemed
like I had installed it correctly, but no floppy.
My floppy drive worked perfectly in w7 PE. So, I knew
the problem had to be software related.

I need my floppy drive for a script I use to create
f6 install disks for XP. The script allows me to write
a floppy image file (an ISO file for floppies) directly
to the drive as a raw block device and then does an
MD5SUM against the raw floppy and the image file. With
the quality of floppy disks these days being to so
low, it allows me to trust the disks I make up.

As it transpires, Red Hat Linux stopped automatically
supporting floppy drives in both Enterprise 6 and Fedora
Core 15 ("modprobe floppy" gets it back).

So, basically, I used Windows 7 to troubleshoot Linux
to create disks for custom installs of XP.
W7 --> Linux --> XP.

Which is what I found amusing. Mind you, not a lot
amusing, but sometimes, a little is enough.

I am having too much fun with this technology!

-T

"Todd" <> wrote in message
news:iu88jd$nf9$...
> Hi All,
>
> A somewhat amusing story to share.
>
>

Love it!

In news:iu88jd$nf9$,
Todd wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A somewhat amusing story to share.
>
> Now this is turn around. Usually I use Linux Live CDs
> to help troubleshoot Windows computers. But his time
> I fired up my Windows 7 PE disk to check if I had installed
> a floppy drive in my new Linux server correctly. Seemed
> like I had installed it correctly, but no floppy.
> My floppy drive worked perfectly in w7 PE. So, I knew
> the problem had to be software related.
>
> I need my floppy drive for a script I use to create
> f6 install disks for XP. The script allows me to write
> a floppy image file (an ISO file for floppies) directly
> to the drive as a raw block device and then does an
> MD5SUM against the raw floppy and the image file. With
> the quality of floppy disks these days being to so
> low, it allows me to trust the disks I make up.
>
> As it transpires, Red Hat Linux stopped automatically
> supporting floppy drives in both Enterprise 6 and Fedora
> Core 15 ("modprobe floppy" gets it back).
>
> So, basically, I used Windows 7 to troubleshoot Linux
> to create disks for custom installs of XP.
> W7 --> Linux --> XP.
>
> Which is what I found amusing. Mind you, not a lot
> amusing, but sometimes, a little is enough.
>
> I am having too much fun with this technology!
>
> -T

No surprise to me. ;-)

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

On 06/26/2011 03:22 PM, BillW50 wrote:

Hi Bill,

All I got was a blank page. Please resend.

-T

On 27/06/2011 02:23, Todd wrote:
> On 06/26/2011 03:22 PM, BillW50 wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> All I got was a blank page. Please resend.
>
> -T
That's all you ever get from BillW50 - blanks. Especially in his brain
(or what's left of it).

On 6/27/2011 3:02 AM, Gordon wrote:
> On 27/06/2011 02:23, Todd wrote:
>> On 06/26/2011 03:22 PM, BillW50 wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> All I got was a blank page. Please resend.
>>
>> -T
> That's all you ever get from BillW50 - blanks. Especially in his brain
> (or what's left of it).

Still trolling eh Gordon?

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v3.0
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

Todd wrote:
> Hi All,

<snipped>

> I am having too much fun with this technology!

That's a bad sign. If it isn't making you miserable, you are doing
something wrong.

--
Crash

Committed to the search for intraterrestrial intelligence.

On 27/06/2011 12:39, Dave "Crash" Dummy wrote:
> Todd wrote:
>> Hi All,
>
> <snipped>
>
>> I am having too much fun with this technology!
>
> That's a bad sign. If it isn't making you miserable, you are doing
> something wrong.
>

I get lots of fun from it as well. And the best fun of all comes from
pushing it to the limits, having it crash, and then sort it out.

Ed

"Todd" <> schreef in bericht
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> Hi All,
>
> A somewhat amusing story to share.
>
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Ed Cryer wrote:
> On 27/06/2011 12:39, Dave "Crash" Dummy wrote:
>> Todd wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>
>> <snipped>
>>
>>> I am having too much fun with this technology!
>>
>> That's a bad sign. If it isn't making you miserable, you are doing
>> something wrong.
>
> I get lots of fun from it as well. And the best fun of all comes from
> pushing it to the limits, having it crash, and then sort it out.

Some of us are sicker than others. :-)
--
Crash

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."
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