What kind of system are you backing up on a single 1.44 mb disk? I guess “restore” just had the restore utilities.
You could boot an old pc from floppy like what later would be called a live CD. Though you were constantly switching disks. Like if you ever played Monkey Island on 5.25” floppies.
Older PCs couldn’t always boot from CD. In those cases, you needed a boot disk. It had just enough OS to get the cd drive working and allow for a full install. They also allowed for basic repair or maintenance tasks e.g. resizing the windows partition.
Veterans kept a couple about at home. Nothing like the catch 22. “I need a boot disk to fix my PC/I need my PC to make a boot disk.”
A lot of terraform and docker compose files could fit on a floppy still.
Actually, that might be a fun thing to play with. It might not have data. But you could back up a good amount of config and deployment information and have a system to restore data to.
What kind of system are you backing up on a single 1.44 mb disk? I guess “restore” just had the restore utilities.
You could boot an old pc from floppy like what later would be called a live CD. Though you were constantly switching disks. Like if you ever played Monkey Island on 5.25” floppies.
When the OS is DOS you can easily fit the entire thing on a floppy.
Mac OS system 6 too, I think.
Oh, there’s a- Monkey in my pocket! And he’s stealing all my change! His stare is blank and glassy I suspect he’s deraaaaaanged!
LOL! Finding this song in the wild made my week. Thanks for that. XD
Monkey Island is such a treasure:
“You just don’t know when to quit, do you?!”
“Apparently neither did your barber.”
You used to be able to get a whole-ass router that fit on 1.2MB in the late 90’s.
Novell SPX routers also ran from a single floppy
Before bios supported bootable cd’s you needed them to get the windows 95 install started.
That said, this was an obvious joke image :)
I believe it’s a practical joke and there isn’t actually anything important on that drive.
Not anymore!
Plot twist: it’s a NORAD system recovery diskette.
Are you akshually’ing my akshually post?
I think he was letting you know you r/whoosh ed
What is ‘r/’?
lemmy
Why, there is no r in lemmy
Older PCs couldn’t always boot from CD. In those cases, you needed a boot disk. It had just enough OS to get the cd drive working and allow for a full install. They also allowed for basic repair or maintenance tasks e.g. resizing the windows partition.
Veterans kept a couple about at home. Nothing like the catch 22. “I need a boot disk to fix my PC/I need my PC to make a boot disk.”
A lot of terraform and docker compose files could fit on a floppy still.
Actually, that might be a fun thing to play with. It might not have data. But you could back up a good amount of config and deployment information and have a system to restore data to.