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IDE Floppy Disk + Debian: anything to consider?
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No idea how to do this properly, but it's definitely possible. Maybe a USB to IDE adapter makes more sense than going through SATA as it can just expose the floppy drive as a USB stick.
But then again CD drives have been around for ages as well and work properly on linux, so do your research.
The steps will probably look like this: