Re: the importance of a boot floppy?

[Kent Borg <kentborg-rhl borg org>]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:21:07AM -0400, rpjday wrote:
> 
>   given that the last couple releases of RH have come with a CD
> that can boot into "linux rescue" mode, is there still any
> compelling reason to build an emergency floppy, either at
> install time or later with "mkbootdisk"?

I haven't bothered to make a boot floppy lately.  It might be useful
if your CD-ROM does at the same time that your lilo gets
confused...but I have considered that far fetched.


-kb, the Kent who didn't even try to use the floppy on his newest
machine for quite some time after building it, and on typing the wrong
mount command concluded for a few days that it didn't even work.