Sadly it is still the only way to get some drivers
And XP/2k3 can only take drivers from floppy
On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer <
bob.elzer@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's a floppy ??? LOL
>
> Do they still make those ?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:19 AM
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> Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?
>
> This works well but behaves weirdly with ext3 floppies
>
>
>
> On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> FYI if you like, you can have the full drive use ext3.
>>
>> Using ext2ifs will let windows access your ext3/ext2 drive
>>
>> http://www.fs-driver.org/
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
>> Alan Dayley
>> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:16 PM
>> To: Main PLUG discussion list
>> Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM, <stevensspam@cox.net> wrote:
>>> I have been debating recently whether to pick up a cheapish networked
>>> external hard drive like a Western Digital My Book (that one
>>> initially because it can be picked up locally, although initially
>>> googling suggests it might not be very Linux friendly). Anyone
>>
>> We have a 1TB My Book that works just fine on Linux. Purchased it a
>> few months ago. I partitioned it half ext3, half FAT32 so we can use
>> it easily for different things. (For example, copying files from ext3
>> to FAT32 causes permission settings to be lost so I want the ext3 on
>> the external drive
>> too.)
>>
>> Hate the name, "My Book" but it is working well for us so far.
>>
>> Alan
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