If you have an old enough motherboard that has a floppy disk controller on it linux used to support them. At worst you might have to download an older livecd if support was removed in newer versions. (no idea if it was removed). On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 1:19 PM Max Pyziur <pyz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > Unlike 3.5 inch diskettes, where there are USB drives available, there is > no such thing for 5 1/4 ones. > > I have some 5-1/4 diskettes which have data that I never bothered to > transfer to newer types of media. So, I'm looking for recommendations in > this regard: > - buy a 5-1/4 interal drive on eBay and try to make it work in Linux? > - find a service that will transfer the data at a cost? > > Thanks in advance, > > Max Pyziur > pyz@xxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
