XP and Linux

[Tim Writer]

David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 15:24, John Wildberger wrote:
> > Rescue disks are fine if you have a setup that permits the use of them. My 
> > system is a ThinkPad with only an external USB floppy.
> 
> at ~50meg, damnsmalllinux was designed to fit on, and boot from, a USB
> key. It features a fill (if lightweight) desktop, and essential rescue
> tools ( like .. umm.. vi !)
> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

RIP (Rescue Is Possible) is also ~50MB and boots from USB key or CD-ROM.

> > On the subject of USB floppies, does anyone know how to format them for a 
> > Linux fs .

Sure, just use mke2fs, mkreiserfs, etc.

> but WHY ? It would only complicate things.

If you're sharing them with Windows, yes.  But if you want to preserve
permissions, ownership, etc. w/o resorting to a tar, cpio, etc. archive, a
native Linux file system is much more convenient.

> Stay with fat16 and you will be able to sneakernet with Windoze.
> djp

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