"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-
