3 Aug
2006
3 Aug
'06
8:27 p.m.
On Thursday 03 August 2006 10:32 pm, Doc Shipley wrote:
The statement that you can't do anything useful
from a single floppy
is also simply not true.
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw
I routinely also use tomsrtbt, from Tom's Hardware page, that's basically a
single-floppy linux. It comes in real handy when some uppity installer
complains because "there's already an OS on that drive!"
Boot that, and then dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc
Not now there ain't! :-) Though it take a while on a larger drive.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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