I am using Linux 2.4 & Lilo and trying to make a 2 floppy boot system work on a USB floppy drive.<BR><BR>On a machine with a normal floppy drive (/dev/fd0) it works fine. The kernel boots, then asks ...

On a one disk (multiple partition) setup with WinXP, if GRUB has been installed to the Linux partition, not the MBR, I currently use a boot floppy for the first-ever boot before using 'dd' and copying ...

The project described here is further proof that Linux is a powerful and versatile system. My college has several trolleys that carry a computer (PC) and a VCR, and both are connected to a video ...

This will be my last foray into UEFI firmware for quite a while. For those who are already tired of my writing about it, I apologize in advance; for those who have asked for more, here it is. For the ...

Because Linux is small and easy to customize, it's a fine kernel for embedded systems. But what about all of the other programs that are needed for a minimum functional GNU/Linux system? The minimum ...

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 ...

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.

Arguably the biggest advantage of the Arduino ecosystem is how easy it is to get your code running. Type a few lines into the IDE, hit the button, and in a few seconds you’re seeing an LED blink or ...