On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 03:47, Pierre Jarillon wrote: > Le Jeudi 7 Août 2003 00:57, Frank Griffin a écrit : > > Just an idle, uninformed question, but is there any way to tell a > > Mandrake install boot (whether from CD or floppy with maybe old hd.img > > on it) to "reboot-in-place" using the hd.img from a local disk cooker > > mirror ? The object being not to have to create new hd.img boot > > floppies all of the time... > > This become an important question. More and more computer are shipped > without a floppy. Not because of its price, but only because floppy is now > useless or impossible (like VIA mini-ITX).
Well, you can do an hd.img-type boot from the CD, and most small machines have a bootable CD drive, so it's not so vital for that purpose. But it'd be a very nice feature, I agree. -- adamw
