About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.

There was a time when booting Linux from a floppy disk was the norm, but of course, those days are long gone. Even if you still had a working 3.5 inch drive, surely the size of the modern kernel alone ...

Floppy disks, long dismissed as obsolete relics of the past, have unexpectedly returned to the Linux development spotlight. For the first time in nearly three years, a new patch has been submitted to ...

first doublecheck your usage of rawwrite, chances are you've just overlooked something. <BR><BR>if you still can't get it to work, go to www.bootdisk.com and check out the utilities section. Theres an ...

GRUB: it's neither larva, fast food nor the loveliest of acronyms in the GNU herd of free software. Rather, GRUB is the GNU GRand Unified Bootloader. And, it is truly the greatest loader for booting ...

Can someone explain to me how to make a corel linux boot disk, so instead of making a duel boot system, I can just use the boot disk when I want to use Linux. On the corel website, it says to format a ...