"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My reasoning is there will be so little use of floppies from here on out. > CD's are ubiquitous, the energy we spend making the installer fit in > 1.4MB would be far better spent making our CD (and mini-CD) installation > flawless, and concentrating on better network (nfs/bootp/etc.) support.
There seems to be a trend amongst the mobile laptops to NOT have a CD drive. You will need an external USB CD drive and the BIOS may not support booting off it. For example, Toshiba's Dynabook SS S4/275PNHW is such a beast and it only boots off the CD drives made by Toshiba. # I believe they call this legacy-free USB support or something. However, booting from an external USB floppy drive works with any ol' drive, so you might want to keep those floppies around for a bit. BTW, this machine can boot of a PC card, so I ended up installing from a home-brew 2.88Mb floppy image on smart media, installed the drivers from floppy (the PC card was invisible after the boot) and pulled in the rest from CD ;-) # MY IO Data CD drive works fine, I just can't boot off it :-( FYI, http://dynabook.com/pc/catalog/ss_c/020121s4/index_j.htm Sorry, but in Japanese only I'm afraid. -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, CID GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 LPIC-2 -- I hack, therefore I am -- BOFH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
