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List:       ltsp-discuss
Subject:    Re: [Ltsp-discuss] floppy support on ltsp 2.08
From:       Wolfgang Schweer <schweer () cityweb ! de>
Date:       2002-02-08 14:28:00
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On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Jason Bechtel wrote:


> > Upgrade to ltsp version 3 and read the news about updated floppyd on the =
> > news page of http://www.ltsp.org. Floppy on ltsp 3 is quite easy.
>
> Really?!  I haven't heard anything about this.  I didn't find anything
> about floppyd on the News page.  I also didn't find anything on the
> Contrib page.  The only thing I found was an RPM and a tarball on the
> Downloads page on Sourceforge, which did not contain any documentation
> and the note for the "Floppy Access" section only mentions the NBD
> package.  I looked into the ltsp_floppyd-3.0 tarball and it contains a
> floppyd binary with an rc file and an install script that conforms to
> the LTSP 3.0 root directory (/opt/ltsp/i386/...).
>
> Have the problems with floppyd been resolved?  Last time I tried it,
> some people could use it flawlessly, but others could not use it at all.

you might look at www.westfalenlolleg-dortmund.de/ltsp/
for some hints concerning floppy access
Don't know if it it easy to reproduce, you have to find out ...

> Also, as far as I can tell, there's nothing about this version of
> floppyd that *requires* LTSP 3.0.  The rc file and the install file
> reference the 3.0 filesystem conventions and the newer device location
> (/dev/floppy/0), but this can all be manually changed much easier than
> forcing him to upgrade a live installation to 3.0!

that's true, indeed.

Wolfgang


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