I got a new laptop (IBM T42), it had everything I wanted except a floppy drive. Yes I know floppies are old and nobody uses them, however in my lab we still use them so I need a floppy drive. So I took my old laptop with a dedicated floppy drive, started sshd and on the new machine setup keychain (allows you to log in to ssh without passwords but still secure) and a put together a bash script. Now I have a floppy drive for the new machine and still the option to set the old machine up as a web server or some other odd application.
All of this was done just to save money on a usb floppy drive.
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I got a new laptop (IBM T42), it had everything I wanted except a floppy drive. Yes I know floppies are old and nobody uses them, however in my lab we still use them so I need a floppy drive. So I took my old laptop with a dedicated floppy drive, started sshd and on the new machine setup keychain (allows you to log in to ssh without passwords but still secure) and a put together a bash script. Now I have a floppy drive for the new machine and still the option to set the old machine up as a web server or some other odd application.
All of this was done just to save money on a usb floppy drive.