[Novalug] USB floppy, format to 1.722M?

Charles M Howe cmhowe@patriot.net
Thu Jan 1 01:49:58 EST 2009


Ed,

There was a technology that never really caught on, more's the shame:
the LS-120, I think it was called. Lay hands on one and a few disks and
voila, you have a lot of space for the sort of distro you are thinking
about. Or am I missing something?

Charlie

On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 19:28 -0500, Ed James wrote:
> Any one have a USB floppy drive that has been able to format
> a normally 1.44M floppy to 1.722M instead?  Going thru the pain
> of trying to get a working linux system onto a floppy to book
> a couple of OLD freebie laptops.
> 
> I've tried ufiformat at 1.44M okay, but not at 1.722M.
> 
> Current active 'puter doesn't have a built-in floppy drive - took
> it out when it borked.
> 
> Ed Jamed
> 
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