Yeah, but if you screw up a floppy you can try again with the same one.  A
CD becomes a coaster.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:05 AM
> To: 'Bradley Miller'; 'kclug@kclug.org'
> Subject: RE: Distro of the day . . . 
> 
> 
> Brad,
> 
>    Have you tried burning the cd's so that they are bootable. 
> If you can
> make the CD boot, you are much better off than trying to get 
> those STUPID
> floppies to work right. I always have trouble putting just 
> the right image
> on the floppy to boot (it's only because I always grab the 
> wrong one from
> the wrong directory the first time, or two, or ...).
> 
> Best Regards,
> Brian
> 
> Brian Densmore <mailto:DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com>  
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bradley Miller [mailto:bradmiller@dslonramp.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 7:55 AM
> > To: kclug@kclug.org
> > Subject: Distro of the day . . . 
> > 
> > 
> > Ok -- I've played around with some settings on trying to get 
> > Slackware to
> > run . . . I'm not in the mood to bash my head against a brick 
> > wall.   Now
> > I'm downloading the latest Mandrake.  (Thank God for DSL -- 
> > 790Kbps right
> > now . . . )   We'll see how this goes.   At the very least 
> > I'll have a nice
> > CD collection.  :-/  
> > 
> > -- Bradley Miller