Pressing a button in Linux is too complicated

[Bill Cavalieri]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 14:50 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:09 pm, djgoku wrote:
> 
> > What are floppies? I thought those weren't used anymore. At least I
> > try not to, but when I need to I would probably just create an .img
> > and put on a boot cd. Floppies should be banned.
> 
> Floppies are handy when you need to move less than 1.5MB of data between 
> machines, and for booting in certain configurations.
> 
> My latest floppy projects were Dan's Boot-and-nuke, a handy one-floppy linux 
> distro that will wipe a hard drive, used for a bunch of old office machines 
> with CD's in various states of disrepair,  and trying to do an FTP install of 
> Mandrake on a laptop who's CD is dead.

I'm still confused, so a floppy is like a cdr/dvdr that only holds
1.5megs?  I'm all for the 80's retro stuff, but think I have to draw the
line at that, and A Flock Of Seaguls.  Just use a usb cdrom then, and if
the box doesn't support that, then it should be given to Hal :)

-Bill