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> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 4:57 PM
> To: Martin Munt
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: lilo: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0905
>
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> > What next? I'm booting from floppy now :(
>
> That's what I do! :') Floppy isn't a horrible way to go. Just make
> an extra boot floppy or two, then you'll be fairly safe. I don't
> think I've ever had a floppy drive 'die', but I have had disks die...
That's just evil. :-) Floppy drives are relatively hard to kill, out of 50
machines in the labs, I replace about 1 or 2 drives a semester. I replace
about 1 HD every 3 semesters. However, floppy diskettes are INCREDIBLY
fragile. If you set it on top of your speakers, or near a cell phone, or
even near a monitor, you could end up with all your bits in a bind. I
usually keep 2 boot floppies around, but only because I like to have
something there in case my boot CDs or drives die. And those are only for
when my HD dies to the point that I can't boot from it, which is pretty
rare. Stay away from booting from floppy except in an emergency, they are
NOT reliable.
Greg
