Certainly not, it's just that standard practice has you storing your floppies in a box or something similar. The floppy diskette system is not designed to be a storage mechanism for a floppy. This just means that you are expected to boot your machine from floppy, remove the disk and store it elsewhere. Of course, if your machine reboots suddenly you've got a problem. Here is why you (a) run diskless workstations that boot from the network or (b) put at least *something* on a local hard drive. I would be aghast to find a production machine that was dependant on having the floppy disk physically mounted all the time. Mostly this is just a case where something is certainly possible, it's just not advisable. Josh __SIG__ On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Brian wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Joshua Jore wrote: > > > On that note I recall hearing from our engineers (I work at a megaco that > > makes floppies) that the stray electrical trickle or so on a R/W head can > > and does attract dust and may pose issues to the data it is in immediate > > contact with. > > So, in essence, the whole idea of the floppy was flawed? :-) > > If it's important, I don't use floppies anymore. They're too small to > hold anything, and they're so unreliable. I've resorted to using floppies > only for booting legacy hardware AKA those without bootable CDROM > support. In the original instance of this thread a floppy makes sense > because it's an easy way to go. If you get your distro past the size of a > floppy, use a 20 or 40 MB hard drive. If you don't have one, ask the geek > closest to you if they're willing to trade one of theirs for beer. > > -Brian > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >