well actually I would rather use a bootable CDROM but I don't have a burner.... On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Brian wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Joshua Jore wrote: > > > On that note I recall hearing from our engineers (I work at a megaco that > > makes floppies) that the stray electrical trickle or so on a R/W head can > > and does attract dust and may pose issues to the data it is in immediate > > contact with. > > So, in essence, the whole idea of the floppy was flawed? :-) > > If it's important, I don't use floppies anymore. They're too small to > hold anything, and they're so unreliable. I've resorted to using floppies > only for booting legacy hardware AKA those without bootable CDROM > support. In the original instance of this thread a floppy makes sense > because it's an easy way to go. If you get your distro past the size of a > floppy, use a 20 or 40 MB hard drive. If you don't have one, ask the geek > closest to you if they're willing to trade one of theirs for beer. > > -Brian > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >