21 Apr
1999
21 Apr
'99
10:15 p.m.
On 04/21/99 15:47:37 you wrote:
In message 199904211921.PAA30871@trail.cimedia.com, Ozzie Sabina writes:
(and you don't really physically need a floppy to do a 'floppy boot'),
^^^^^^^^^^^
Didn't know that. I'll file it under "emergency things I hope I never need to know". :)
Presumably he means "for the purposes of getting at that interactive menu before the filer boots up all the way." But that wasn't really the goal of the floppy boot; it was for things like installs and boting up a previous OS when the current one is crashing your filer and so on.
Bruce