[Novices] recording on a floppy

[Brock Inglehart]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:45 -0400, bill wrote:
> 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.

Thank you.  I have been trying to find a kind way of saying just that.
I know all of you are trying to help but...I am that newbie.
I have USB ports but a) they are all used now, b) why do I want to have
to go out and buy something else for a simple task.  
Is it really probable that Something as powerful and developed as Suse
9.2 doesn't have a simple floppy utility all loaded and ready to go like
K3B is to the CD?
Brock
> 
> 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
> 
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