| === zmoylan-1i is now known as zmoylan-pi | ||
| airurando | afternoon | 12:08 |
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| zmoylan-pi | o/ | 12:08 |
| airurando | I came across old college floppies and id like to get the data off them. | 12:09 |
| zmoylan-pi | ooooh a challenge... | 12:09 |
| airurando | I have a usb floppy drive. | 12:09 |
| zmoylan-pi | i'm thinking.... | 12:09 |
| zmoylan-pi | ah then you're sorted? | 12:09 |
| airurando | not sure if the disks are good nor am i sure if the drive is good | 12:09 |
| zmoylan-pi | ah | 12:10 |
| zmoylan-pi | no work pc with a floppy drive? | 12:10 |
| airurando | it doesn't appear to work automagically | 12:10 |
| airurando | no pc left in house with floppy drive | 12:10 |
| zmoylan-pi | i could probably rustle up a floppy drive but i have no motherboard it would talk to | 12:11 |
| airurando | any ideas on how i can check the drive? | 12:12 |
| airurando | should it just mount when a disk is inserted? | 12:12 |
| zmoylan-pi | i haven't used a floppy drive with linux since about red hat 5.2 :-) | 12:13 |
| zmoylan-pi | i would assume on ubuntu it would | 12:13 |
| airurando | grand | 12:14 |
| airurando | hope you are keeping well zmoylan-pi | 12:15 |
| zmoylan-pi | may not be automagic on ubuntu... http://askubuntu.com/questions/168597/how-do-i-use-a-floppy-drive-in-ubuntu | 12:15 |
| zmoylan-pi | getting by airurando, yourself? | 12:16 |
| airurando | not to bad here | 12:18 |
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