... and is there any way I can help?

I was all set to run tripwire off of a floppy on my system... till I
realized the floppy drive wasn't actually there in any useful sense.

In the interim, has there been any luck using externel SCSI zip drives?
(Yes, I know the scariness involving panics on MESH hardware, which I
*am* using, but I could get lucky.) I'd settle for that, even though
it's way more space than tripwire needs (hey, I could have a database
of everything on all my file systems... only but tripwire'd take an
hour to run).

Failing this, I guess I'll have to do some repartitioning wizardry,
get a small partition (just a couple of MBs) somewhere that I can
mount ro most of the time and umount ; mount rw when I want to do
tripwire. That's really not as good as removeable media for security
purposes, though. (NFS could also work... but then I'm just putting my
tw data on another theoretically compromisable system.)

All of this aside, though, what I'd really like is a working floppy
drive... is anyone working on that? Do they need help? What help?

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net