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Using Floppies

Floppy diskettes are great for many things. Their main problem is that they are small. Linux machines use a different default file system from Microsoft Windows, so as you might guess, their floppies have a different formatting. Although the diskettes can have different formatting, Linux is able to read and format disks into Microsoft format.



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Joseph Colton 2002-09-24