[Cialug] Die Floppy, Die!

[Sean McClanahan]

Ummm...  yeah, I thought the floppy was dying off, but it seems to be a
very slow, agonizing, death.

Sean


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Chris K.
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:24 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Linux in an AD environment

I'll drag this further off topic.  It's even worse when there is no 
floppy, yet the hardware vendor insists on sending firmware upgrades on 
a floppy.  Firmware you need to even start a cd/network based 
installation of linux/windows/other.

We (meaning me) finally bought a usb floppy just for that sort of thing.

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>  
>   
>>  
>>
>> So my questions to the more learned out there in this group are:
>>
>>  
>>
>> A)     I know that I will need to have Samba on the box, correct?
>>
>> B)      How easy do the different distros of Linux see and 
>> load SATA RAID adapters?  With W2K3, you hit the F6 key, load 
>> your driver disk (still a floppy!), and it's happy and keeps 
>> going.  How does that work with Linux?
>>
>> C)      I am most comfortable so far with Ubuntu and Fedora.  
>> Not trying to start an OS war, please.  Just looking for 
>> input as to the viability of making either of these work as a 
>> file server that my Windows clients can see and use, with 
>> correct permissions.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> If it were me, (A man's got to know his limitations, and I have quite
a few)
> I would start with
> Just getting the OS installed and sharing a folder with Windows.  From
there
> move on to AD integration 
> Which may require some reading and re-installations to perfect your
skills.
>
> Or use one of the distros already mentioned.  OpenFiler is very slick.
>
> Interesting that you mention f6 and driver floppies.  It is very hard
to
> install Windows on a machine with no floppy when a driver is required
for
> the Disk subsystem.  That is amazingly irritating.  How long have OS X
and
> Linus supported alternate installations?  </rant>
>
> -Nate
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