Eben King wrote:
>> There are tools for it. I seem to remember Ubuntu having a 'floppy
>> formatter' in the system menu somewhere. It "should" work like any
>> other storage device.
>
> Make sure you don't partition it as you would a hard drive, use the
> whole device (usually /dev/fd0). Well, you can (it won't catch fire or
> anything), but nobody else could read your floppies. There's little
> benefit in partitioning anything that small.
Hi Eben,
I think they do that in "Minuscule Linux". 1K boot, 100K swap, the rest
home. No one will ever need more than 640K anyway.
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