On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Bill Layer wrote:

> Buy a quality media, run it in a clean, maintained drive, and reliability
> can be quite acceptable.

I agree that floppy disks are lacking in quality, but since your
single-floppy distros only use the floppy to BOOT, I don't see any reason
not to use the cheapies.  I was running a LRP for a good 6 months between
reboots (all the fault of the modem, sometimes it would get hung and
rebooting was the quick fix).  If I was running ethernet I wouldn't have
ever rebooted I don't believe.

That being said, it's always a good idea to dd those important floppies in
the event that your disk fails you.