Re: BiDi and RTL
"Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com> writes:
> My reasoning is there will be so little use of floppies from here on out.
> CD's are ubiquitous, the energy we spend making the installer fit in
> 1.4MB would be far better spent making our CD (and mini-CD) installation
> flawless, and concentrating on better network (nfs/bootp/etc.) support.
There seems to be a trend amongst the mobile laptops to NOT have a CD
drive. You will need an external USB CD drive and the BIOS may not
support booting off it. For example, Toshiba's Dynabook SS S4/275PNHW
is such a beast and it only boots off the CD drives made by Toshiba.
# I believe they call this legacy-free USB support or something.
However, booting from an external USB floppy drive works with any ol'
drive, so you might want to keep those floppies around for a bit.
BTW, this machine can boot of a PC card, so I ended up installing from
a home-brew 2.88Mb floppy image on smart media, installed the drivers
from floppy (the PC card was invisible after the boot) and pulled in
the rest from CD ;-)
# MY IO Data CD drive works fine, I just can't boot off it :-(
FYI,
http://dynabook.com/pc/catalog/ss_c/020121s4/index_j.htm
Sorry, but in Japanese only I'm afraid.
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