ethflopd(8)

📦 version 0~20240916, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🌸 ethflopd — bestie edition 🌸

okay so you found the ethflopd(8) page, and honestly? iconic. this is the System Manager's Manual section, so it's giving very "you have root and you know how to use it" energy 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ethflopd — an Ethernet DOS floppy image server. yeah. it serves floppy images. over ethernet. to DOS machines. we're so back 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ethflopd [-f] iface directory

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, bestie: ethflopd serves floppy images that are stored in the given directory, and it serves them over the interface iface. that's it. that's the whole job. no cap 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -f — stay in the foreground (like, do not daemonize the process). lowkey the "i want to watch it happen in my terminal" mode 👀

✨ NOTES ✨

real talk though: ethflopd needs the CAP_NEW_RAW system capability. which, in practice, usually means you gotta run it as root. not me forgetting that and staring at a wall for twenty minutes 😭

✨ AUTHORS ✨

ethflopd was written by Mateusz Viste 👑

this manual page was adapted from the provided documentation by Stephen Kitt, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but it may be used by others — sharing is caring, fr fr 🌈).

k bye bestie, go serve some floppies 💾💖

this has been ethflop — dated December 30, 2020 — signing off from the ethflopd(8) page. slay. periodt. 🎀

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