<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Rob Owens wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20070707231906.GA17522@clubber.owens.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 09:16:26AM -0600, Don Gould wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I'm hoping to boot Linux off of 3.5 disks on each machine. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You could also try booting off a CD. I find it's quicker than booting from the floppy (due to the increased read speed), and it might even be cheaper. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80408&package_id=97496&release_id=190646">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80408&package_id=97496&release_id=190646</a> -Rob </pre> </blockquote> Actually, booting off the CD isn't going to affect speed very much at all. The reason is that the EtherBoot file is so small--32KB to 36KB--that it'll take as much time for the CD to spin up as it would to read that little file from a floppy. Now, hard disk, that's a different story. But even then, the file's so small that--fortunately--it doesn't matter that much. Also remember, once the EtherBoot image is loaded, you're then TFTP-booting across the network. The floppy's out of the picture at that point. --TP </body> </html>