[Novices] recording on a floppy

[bill]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:35, John Bridleman wrote:

> 
> All that depends on what distro your running and if your running gnome or kde or whatever.
> 
Agreed.  I only looked to see how to do it on this box.

> >From what you describe I think your running gnome but your not running SuSE, which he is. 


> His mount point would be /media/floppy

Replace what I said with that.

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

I understand, although I'm a confirmed troglodyte.  

My concern was that we don't "solve" one thing he can't do (floppies) by
telling him to do another thing he can't do (USB).  It often isn't
helpful, especially for newbies.

I never liked working on Mac boxes that didn't have a floppy drive. 
We'd always wind up with some situation where we needed to transport a
file and, "Oops, no floppy."  Why not?  "Well," they always said, "Apple
says we don't need a floppy."  "We do now."

I'm growing in favor of usb devices but they are not ubiquitous enough
to be reliably used.  Showing up with a usb device is like showing up
with a zip disk.  Often, they can't accept it.  I'm still bummed that
flash cards come in too many sizes (not mb, physical size).

Anyway, I hope this guy figures out how to solve his problem.

kind regards,

bill