On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, at 4:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's a stupid question. Dell recently announced that they're getting > rid of floppy drives in their systems.
Just FYI, what they actually announced was that they are making the floppy drive an option on their Precision Workstation line. Of course, you can expect other models and vendors to follow eventually. > So, when this happens, and we're all living in a floppy-less world, how do > then do things like 'make bzdisk' ? I haven't used "make bzdisk" in ages. Floppies are so damn slow. When I build a new kernel for test, I drop it into /boot/ (along with any needed support files), and define a new GRUB entry, GRUB makes it very easy to switch kernels, or modify kernel options at boot. (Before GRUB, I used LILO, which was more restrictive but worked well enough.) And I always kept my stock kernel around, to boot in case of emergency. If I somehow manage to get the system so hosed my backup kernels don't work (in which case, I'd probably be hosed even if I *had* used "bzdisk"), I boot from CD and start repairing the system that way. If you really wanted some kind of functionality like "bzdisk", I suppose you could script something to automatically create a bootable CD-RW, but why bother? :) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
