Comment On the Usefulness of Floppy Disks (Score 1) 1449
I still use flopppies on occasion. It is still an unfortunately common occurance that I screw up my boot sector and have to rawrite a boot image to fix things.
However, they aren't that neccesary for the most part. If I've got a CD-ROM, can't I boot a Linux Rescue disk? Yes. In fact, most of the uses of reccue floppies etc... have been eliminated by the rescue CD. Usually, RedHat's install disk has sufficient rescue gusto to get me up and running. Granted I run RedHat, but other distro's have the same feature. CD's are too cheap to not use, and for a file is small enough to justify the use of floppy instead of a CD-burn, I just email it, or SCP it. Even over a modem, a file that small is a quick upload.
However, they aren't that neccesary for the most part. If I've got a CD-ROM, can't I boot a Linux Rescue disk? Yes. In fact, most of the uses of reccue floppies etc... have been eliminated by the rescue CD. Usually, RedHat's install disk has sufficient rescue gusto to get me up and running. Granted I run RedHat, but other distro's have the same feature. CD's are too cheap to not use, and for a file is small enough to justify the use of floppy instead of a CD-burn, I just email it, or SCP it. Even over a modem, a file that small is a quick upload.
