I am using Linux 2.4 & Lilo and trying to make a 2 floppy boot system work on a USB floppy drive.<BR><BR>On a machine with a normal floppy drive (/dev/fd0) it works fine. The kernel boots, then asks ...

Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering environments, and they packed in a surprising amount of useful stuff. But a version ...

The project described here is further proof that Linux is a powerful and versatile system. My college has several trolleys that carry a computer (PC) and a VCR, and both are connected to a video ...

On a one disk (multiple partition) setup with WinXP, if GRUB has been installed to the Linux partition, not the MBR, I currently use a boot floppy for the first-ever boot before using 'dd' and copying ...

A pendrive is a USB storage device. You plug it in to a USB port, and if the pendrive is compatible with your operating system, it should look exactly like another disk on your system. These days, it ...

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.