Re: boot floppies and syslinux "-s" mode
I never got a CD, always boot with a floppy (and download the
dist. with mirror). Course, I fried the floppy controller and haven't
been able to do a fresh install for months :-( .....
ezanardi>On Mon, Jul 20, 1998 at 10:00:05AM +0200, fog@irfmn.mnegri.it wrote:
ezanardi>> Just one comment. If you have a fast box (Pentium) there is a hight chance
ezanardi>> you also have a CD-Rom. I think the only people booting from floppy are
ezanardi>> the ones with old 486 and the -s option doesn't make much difference
ezanardi>> in that case (or does it?). Ciao,
ezanardi>
ezanardi>It does. 486 DX2 66 Mhz. ~1 min without "-s", ~4 min with "-s".
John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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