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Day Brown wrote:
>
> Corel/debian on an IDE, FREEDOS on the SCSI, set to 
> boot off the floppy. Leave the floppy out, it boots 
> to Linux.  Unlike the usual boot menu, I dont havta 
> be at the kybd to make the choice, just turn on the pc, 
> and either shove the floppy in, or not.

I think it's easier pressing one key (from the boot menu)
than inserting a floppy (and remembering to remove it).
Boots much faster too.
 
> All my own writing sits on the dos drive where no online 
> sabotage software can ever do anything to it. 

format c:/u  ?

> the half life of a 'resuce floppy' is about 3 weeks.

And the half life of your DOS boot floppy is ???

> can BL access an ext3? or only ext2?

The default BL2 zimage (kernel) does not do ext3.  However, 
you can replace it with a bzimage that does (you'll probably
need new modules as well).

Cheers,
Steven