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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:20:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: Pascal Schmidt <pleasure.and.pain@web.de>
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	Hello Pascal ,  Which can mean that I can not use the floppy
	drive either (?) .  Also one can easily have more than 1 device
	which gets by the can not use for both floppy & cdrom .
		Hth ,  JimL

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Pascal Schmidt wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> >> Shameless plug: I use my own distribtion
> >> 	http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux/
> >> for the same purpose. ;)
> > And some not-so-minimalistic systems... you can fit an awful lot on a CD.
> > 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/
>
> Sure, but having to mount the CDROM means the drive is inaccessible during
> a rescue operation, so no restore from CDROM or CDRW backups is possible.
> ;) Mine runs out of a 4 MB ramdisk image.
>
> --
> Ciao, Pascal
>
> -<[ pharao90@tzi.de, netmail 2:241/215.72, home http://cobol.cjb.net/) ]>-
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