Subj : And another thing
To   : Daemon
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Wed Apr 27 2005 03:19 pm

  Re: And another thing
  By: Daemon to Angus Mcleod on Wed Apr 27 2005 14:02:00

 >  > Yes, but you have to get the machine up to where it can read a CD first.
 >  > Which means a bootable floppy or CD.  So it's a pity the CD isn't bootabl
 >  > to start with, right?
 > 
 >   This is exactly why I went to the trouble to make a bootable floppy (and
 > several copies) that tries a series of CDROM drivers before dropping to the 
 > prompt, and made sure fdisk, scandisk, edit, format, sys, and mscdex are on
 > there.

Trouble is, my religeon prevents me from owning a floppy-disk, or touching 
or using one belonging to anyone else.  WHich is why I use a boot CD, of 
700 megabytes capacity, with 698 megabytes free.  Wot a shame those 
empty/wasted 698 megabytes didn't contain the files needed to do the 
install, instead of them being on another CD!

 >   I never have to worry anymore about being able to get a computer to start 
 > under those conditions and scramble around looking for the most basic tools 
 > need to rebuild a system.

I never do either -- at least not by choice.


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