On Wednesday 11 April 2007 21:09, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > On 4/11/07, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I don't miss them either, but when you are using an ancient machine to > > run your Smoothwall firewall on, and the BIOS can't boot from the cdrom, > > then your stuck with booting from the floppies. > > > > I do have another old machine 133Mhz, which IIRC does boot from cdrom. > > Perhaps I should move the Smoothwall to that. Saying that though it would > > be nice to resolve the mformat problem that I've having. > > So it is not the b: drive? Definately a: as when running mformat, I get floppy activity, but I/O errors as I posted to Rick. > > Another option would be to get an ancient 20 MB IDE harddrive just to > keep the boot info on. Thats an interesting suggestion. I do have an old 250MB harddrive lying around. > > /Mike Nigel.
