On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 08:58 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:40:40 -0400, > Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 12:56 +0200, cornel panceac wrote: > > > > > except, of course, if the average user wants to update it's bios. > > > > You can still use the floppy disk, you just need to load the driver for > > it explicitly rather than have it loaded automatically. > > Once you realize that that is what is going on. It took me a while to figure > out what was going on when the floppy drive stopped showing up. This is > not a nice thing to do for Fedora users even if it makes sense for > <removed> users. > > I needed it for updating bios' a few months ago. I also have some old > laptops where passing data with floppies is easier than trying to get > the network started on them. They run rhl 6.2, but the systems I want > to copy to run Fedora. > > Of course now I know what to do, so it's not that big of a deal for me > any more. But I think this is going to be confusing to at least some > people in Fedora's target audience. So it would be nice if floppy drives > worked by default on machines that have them. FYI, this has been the case in Fedora for some time now. As far as kernel behavior goes, that can be debated, but on the kernel list :) Jon. _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
