Perhaps I should have been clearer :) My intent was to say that if it boots from the CD, you are a lot better off when loading packages, as the load time is significantly faster than a floppy. That's what makes it "unquestionably the way to go." Non-bootable CDs work, and give you the additional capacity, but less boost in load speed -- if that is important to you, as it is to me.
Dan Quoting "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > If your hardware isn't too old, changing media is really the way to > go. If > > your system's BIOS can support a bootable CD, that is unquestionably > the way to > > go. I switched from a single-floppy Eiger box to a Dachstein-CD setup > (with > > IPSec), and the flexibility is incredible. It's definitely worth > consideration. > > > > As far as trimming space goes, it sounds like you've been pretty > thorough --- > > you just can't get 10 lbs of corn in 5 lb sack ;) > > Actually, DCD does *not* require a bootable cdrom. > > One of my systems boots off of the floppy and then gets *all* of its > packages off of the cdrom. This scheme leaves little room for > subsequent backups on floppy; but, the partial backup schema saves > alot > of butt, in this regard. > > HTH _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
