Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:08:41 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org> Cc: fcash@bigfoot.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: very old bug Message-ID: <20020412030841.E8139BB39@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10204112234500.40837-100000@speicher.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10204112234500.40837-100000@speicher.org>
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On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:37 pm, Geoffrey C. Speicher wrote:
| On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:
| > Come to think of it, perhaps the best fix for floppies is to simply
| > disable the mounting of floppy-based file systems, forcing you to use
| > mtools, which doesn't have this problem.
|
| Don't forget that mtools are only for accessing MSDOS floppies.
|
| If you use dd to write a new boot floppy and the disk is write protected,
| you're still SOL, no?
Picky, picky.
BTW, my proosal was not intended to be serious!
|
| Geoff
|
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