On 04/21/99 15:47:37 you wrote:

In message 199904211921.PAA30871@trail.cimedia.com, Ozzie Sabina writes:

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(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