On 06/11/2010 08:51 AM, Ryan Rix wrote: > On Thu 10 June 2010 8:07:26 am Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 06/10/2010 08:33 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >>> Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> >>>> I was recently following the advice in the Fedora-13 Installation Guide >>>> to setup a pxeboot server, >>>> and it recommended that one should read the syslinux documentation >>>> in /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.84/syslinux.txt . >>>> (Actually, the Guide says syslinux.doc , but that seems to be a typo.) >>>> >>>> In any case, this document, which is dated 1994-2009, >>>> seems to be entirely concerned with "CREATING A BOOTABLE LINUX FLOPPY". >>>> >>> Apologies for sending this mild rant to the wrong newsgroup. >>> I tried cancelling it, but was told I could not do this >>> as I was not the author ... >>> Probably a bye-product of using gmane ? >>> >> I'm sorry. Could you explain to me what is a "floppy disk"? >> > please tell me this is a joke :) > > It would depend on who is saying it. Until relatively recently my wife was not a computer user. The old laptop she started out on didn't have a floppy. The new netbook she got doesn't have a floppy. Only one system, in our home has a floppy, and she never used that system. She took a contract job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs transcribing old paper documents into a digital documents. The first day on the job someone handed her a floppy. She had no idea what to do with it. If they gave her a USB drive, no problem. So, for her, it was no joke. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100611/3c85d6a9/attachment.bin
