From: snuhwolf5150@hotmail.com   
      
   Alesak  pinched out a steaming pile   
   of<1162585405.206376.50880@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>:   
      
   >Hello David,   
   >   
   >> If you're near me (I'm in London) I can lend you a Libretto PCMCIA   
   >> floppy drive.  That said, I doubt it would work anyway, as the   
   Libretto   
   >   
   >thank you very much for such kind offer, but I would not call two   
   >thousands kilometers as "short" distance and I think I will be able to   
   >get the floppydrive somewhere a bit closer. It will be as you say -   
   >simply, the "memdisk" is not enough and the Be makes some unfair   
   access   
   >to the drive on his own. We'll see, who will win. But an other, maby   
   >more important question, is it worth trying? I don't want to use   
   >Windows on the Libretto (because it's windows) and the Linux in X is   
   >not very fast on it (probably, the biggest limit is the 64MB RAM). So   
   I   
   >hope, that some other POSIX system will do the job better.   
   >   
   >Thank you again!   
   >   
   I use Vector Linux 4.3 on a Toshiba Satellite 490CDT with good results.   
   You can boot from a cd by holding down the 'c' key on your keyboard.   
   BIOS is accessed by holding down 'esc' while booting.   
      
   BeOS was buggy on the same hardware with the usual kernal panic   
   message.   
   :(   
      
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