"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
>
> "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
> >
> > If you want to do a floppy install, use Slackware.
> >
> > I would not expect or hope that Mandrake would waste time creating a
> > floppy install; it's a rather specialized/unusual requirement, it would
> > be hard work, and there's another distribution already that serves that
> > particular niche market well.
> >
> > One of the advantages of Linux with its multiple distribution is that
> > you can find one for your style and your niche and each need not be
> > engaged in a hopeless quest to be all things to all people.
> >
> > And you really have a notebook with a Pentium but no CD-ROM? Sort of
> > unusual, no?
>
> Actually, quite common -- there were lots of Pentium notebooks sold with
> only a provision for external CD-ROM (having seen and troubleshooted a
> few of these I think it's safe to say that the manufacturers were not
> anticipating that the users would be reinstalling operating systems =) )
>
> -Stephen-
I'm with Stephen. Another thing: laptops aren't the only ones without
CD, many offices don't have CDs on the clients and you've got to do a
network (ftp or NFS) install, obviuosly booting with a diskette.
Rafa
