..... was reading a post earlier where Mike advised the other poster he
should really use a floppy disk..I forgot what the post was all about. My
question is: I have a laptop but no floppy came with and did not buy one,
Where something is to be saved onto a floppy (the post was about creating a
boot disk), can it be saved on a CDdisc and boot be run from that disc?
Thanks

adcl said:

As long as you don`t mind using a 700Mb cd to store a little over 1Mb of files.

With a rumble and a belch adcl decided to put the World to rights with this
little speech from the heart...

In a word...yes.
Same process, different format.
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At least you can get CDs free (after the rebate), I haven't seen that yet
with 1.4s

As far as I'm concerned, with cheap & free CDs, jump-drives, compact
cards.....etc......who needs a floppy, I haven't used one for a long time,
except my 98 & ME startup disks that I have had forever.

Joe



"Brian H¹©" <brian@invalid.absey-vine.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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With a rumble and a belch Brian H¹© decided to put the World to rights with
this little speech from the heart...

But as you can get 100 cheap discs for under 18 quid now, it's all in the
mind.
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The post was about booting to DOS from a floppy.
Buy yourself a floppy drive.


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thanks.... but why would the other 699Mb be wasted.... can't I write other
files?
"slumpy" <me4@privacy.net> wrote in message
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With a rumble and a belch adcl decided to put the World to rights with this
little speech from the heart...

CD-RW.
Or...get a pack of cheap cd's from a computer fair, less than 20 quid a
hundred, makes them almost disposable ;-)
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so a floppy is still a needed piece of hardware and cannot be always
replaced by a CD (as in the booting post)?
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Joe Peach said:

Rebate?
You appear to be using an American phrase, yet you are using a UK account.
WTF is "the rebate"?

OED gives the origin of "rebate" as: [From Middle English rebaten, to
deduct, from Old French rabattre, rebattre, to reduce, to beat down again :
re-, re- + abbattre, to beat down; see abate.].
theoperative words being "Middle English".
Not all UK residents are native BTW. As foreigners we have enriched (or
maybe impoverished, depending on your standpoint) the beautiful idiom that
English is!!
:-)

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adcl said:

My point being that the "rebate" system used in the US doesn't exist in the UK
AFAIAA

adcl Spilled my beer when they jumped on the table and proclaimed in
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Maybe a USB floppy might help, if you have a spare USB port, and
the bios allows booting from it?

NOI

A floppy is invaluable for instances where you need to
boot into DOS, for many reasons. It's not absolutely
essential, but it's something that I wouldn't like to be
without.


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