[Novices] recording on a floppy

John Bridleman john at bridleman.org
Wed Jun 15 18:35:20 EDT 2005


* bill wrote:
> To record on a floppy just save your file to /mnt/floppy

<snip>

> Then you can pop the disk out and use the most popular network
> transportation protocol in the world: sneakernet.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> bill hollett
> 

All that depends on what distro your running and if your running gnome or kde or whatever.

>From what you describe I think your running gnome but your not running SuSE, which he is. His mount point would be /media/floppy

I'm kinda in agreement with Bruce. Floppies are unreliable and really don't hold much data. Heck, 1.4M... email it.
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