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". > > There are several other places in the Fedora-13 documentation > where I have come across mention of floppy disks. > (And several Linux programs spend time looking for /dev/fd0 .) > > Do floppy disks still exist? > Are computers with floppy drives still being made? > Yes, and computers are being sold which do BIOS upgrades from magic format floppy, not CD. > It seems to me that as an absolute minimum > any documentation mentioning floppy drives > should at least explain how CDs can be used to the same end. > Should we read this as "I am starting a crusade to research the proper solution for each program I find, and contribute updated documentation to the maintainers?" Or "It would save me some effort if someone else would do this?" -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
