On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Bill Layer wrote: > Buy a quality media, run it in a clean, maintained drive, and reliability > can be quite acceptable. I agree that floppy disks are lacking in quality, but since your single-floppy distros only use the floppy to BOOT, I don't see any reason not to use the cheapies. I was running a LRP for a good 6 months between reboots (all the fault of the modem, sometimes it would get hung and rebooting was the quick fix). If I was running ethernet I wouldn't have ever rebooted I don't believe. That being said, it's always a good idea to dd those important floppies in the event that your disk fails you.