Thoughts on floppy disks

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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:51:42PM -0700, 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 :)

like the - supposedly real story of the person who on during a user group meeting
wanted to ask a friend "please give me your floppy disk" and got one letter wrong :)?

Richard


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