Posted by GalaxySnail 4 days ago
https://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
to setup small router on 486 with 12 MB ram and run flawless. Later i get Linksys WRT54GL and decommissioned that machine.
And they used to fail all the time, especially when you had something that spanned more than a single disk.
Are you from South Africa? I understand it was the standard slang name there -- and nowhere else, because of the double entendre.
But yeah, when that nickname was current, it was quite famous -- and nobody else dared use it, even the Aussies! :-D
or busybox (surprisingly useful)
Sarge dropped i386, Squeeze i486
(That mail also mentions the floppy driver is "basically orphaned" though. But evidently it's still there and builds.)
Maybe you're thinking of the floppy tape (ftape) driver, which was removed back in the 2.6.20 kernel. Though there's a project keeping an out-of-tree version of it working with recent kernels at https://github.com/dbrant/ftape
The Linux kernel drops i486 support in 6.15 (released May 2025), so 6.14 (released March 2025) is the latest version with full compatibility.