next person who mentions the word "backup" feels my legendary wrath. :)
i can't use a cd. i'm using an old pentium which can't boot off cd. pete begin Mark K. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > my application is a linux firewall. the operating > > system (or in this case, a piece of it) fits on a floppy. you pop the > > floppy in, turn the firewall machine on and walk away. so you see, > > i'm using the floppy as a *boot device*. not for backup. > > That's odd. Floppies have never failed on me. Maybe the disk drive is > dirty inside? > > Alternatively, you can make a CD boot image off of the floppy. CDs use > floppy images to boot, so it should be pretty straight forward to make > bootable CDs out of floppies. CDs are more reliable than floppies, I > think... > > -Mark > > -- > Mark K. Kim > http://www.cbreak.org/mark/ > PGP key available upon request. > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
