I've found it varies widely upon the floppy used. The cheap ones used by
the previous owners of some systems I work with usually have very poor
integrity. On the other hand, the good quality ones used by software
publishers in the 80's to ship their applications still seem to work well.
On 10/2
> What I mean is that if your computer is OLDER than 386
> then it does not make much sense to expect CD/DVD at
> all, so for such computers, a floppy distro is better.
Reading about a floppy distro raises one concern in my mind: reliability and
shelf life of floppies.
In later years, I could wr
> On Oct 22, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jerome,
>
> indeed if you have a 386+ and un-bootable CD/DVD, then
> you should be able to run the installer after opening
> the CD/DVD with CD/DVD drivers of your previous DOS :-)
Yep.
>
> What I mean is that if your computer is OLDE
