[Gllug] anyone know a source for 3.5" DSDD floppy disks?

[Matthew King]

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Henrik Morsing wrote:
|>Modern removable storage (eg. USB, CD, Zip (*less* obsolete at least :))
| Not supported on Unix servers.

Well I suppose  I hodn't   considered these sorts of machines.

Floppies are really very old though and far too unstable for general use.

|>ssh/xterm cut&paste
| Not is they're *really* secure. Trust me, I work with servers like this.

You mean they are or they're not secure?

As long as you don't send the key over a link you  can't completely
trust (ie. verified inter-dmz network) this is surely secure enough (scp
rather than cut&paste of course).

|>gpg encrypt -> email -> gpg unencrypt
| Email is rarely installed (for security reasons among others) and email
| traffic will normally be blocked by a number of firewalls.

Once the message is encrypted you can send it over any plaintext  medium.

|>Floppies are merely, as you say, handy. But telnetd is handy.
| Floppies are neccessary on lots of installations.

I would say easier, simpler and more common rather than necessary,
however I suppose I could admit that there are surely some
machines/OSs/distros where floppy is [presently] the only choice.

| ]...snip...] console installation
|>Debian does.
| Not when I was trying. I had to hack a boot floppy.

The installer, which was always the worst part, finally annoyed enough
debian maintainers that it got a complete overhaul which is only nearing
completion now.

Anyway enough about floppies.

They're probably needed on a few occasions but they are, frankly, shit.

Matthew

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