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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.
I believe it's a practical joke and there isn't actually anything important on that drive.
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
Not anymore!
Plot twist: it's a NORAD system recovery diskette.
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."
When the OS is DOS you can easily fit the entire thing on a floppy.
Mac OS system 6 too, I think.
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.
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 :)