Comment 35 for bug 719013

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Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek) wrote :

roland@roland-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get -y install fdutils && superformat -v 3 -B /dev/fd0 HD
[sudo] password for roland:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
fdutils is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libqscintilla2-8 language-pack-kde-zh-hans-base firefox-locale-zh-hans
  language-pack-kde-en kde-l10n-engb language-pack-zh-hans-base kde-l10n-zhcn
  language-pack-zh-hans language-pack-kde-zh-hans language-pack-kde-en-base
  libxerces-c3.1
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
open: Permission denied

Be advised I have BOTH a 3.5" floppy AND an LS-120 in this machine.

I have no current ability to test anything else. I am working on a project which is in death march mode and cannot risk anything happening to the machine. Please remember I also have a 5Gig/month broadband download limit and I use nearly all of it for my job.