"Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > > What that probably means is separate image distributions for > > local media booting vs. remote media booting, to keep all > > drivers in the boot path available. > > I think perhaps it /is/ time to start looking seriously at this option. > > I have deep dislike for "Choose your boot floppy from these 23,456 > possibilities, each of which is guaranteed to have 95% of the drivers you > need for your hardware, but not the other 5%" type methodology. We all do; that's why no one has solved the problem that way yet. 8-). > On the > other hand, 2 or even 3 clean divisions like that could make things a lot > easier to fit, and remain easy to use. The biggest win has got to be "real floppy vs. BIOS-faked floppy", I think. You still end up with the disk drivers in everything, though. -- TerryReceived on Sun May 04 2003 - 14:59:59 UTC
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