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

[Matthew King]

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Henrik Morsing wrote:
| On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Matthew King wrote:
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|>Floppies were made obsolete years ago. Stop using them unless it's
|>completely impossible.
|
| Rubbish.
| When you work on secured network with proper Unix servers and need to move
| say, an SSH key to another server, floppies are handy and sometimes the
| only way to do it.

Modern removable storage (eg. USB, CD, Zip (*less* obsolete at least :))

printer

ssh/xterm cut&paste

gpg encrypt -> email -> gpg unencrypt

Floppies are merely, as you say, handy. But telnetd is handy.

| Also, as far as I know *none* of the Linux distros support using a serial
| console when installing which makes floppies neccessary or very useful
| depending on what the computer hardware supports.

Debian does.

Done so on i386 and sparc to date. The sparc installed with no removable
media whatsoever.

|>Nothing is completely impossible.
| Sometimes it is.

Convincing people that <Free-Software-Project> is better than
<Other-Free-Software-Project> maybe. Nothing else.

Matthew

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