X terminal distributions?

[Brian Kelsay]

It may have something to do with the inaccuracy of the older read heads on those CD drives.  As for not being able to boot to CD, there was a point where the architecture changed within the PC.  I recall in my first Pentium, the CD drive IDE cable plugged directly into the sound card.  After most of the parts had been replaced in that PC I had plugged the replacement CD into the mobo and the drive worked better, however it still needed a boot floppy.

Brian Kelsay

>>> Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> 12/03/04 12:45AM >>>

--- Brian Kelsay <Brian.Kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:

> Correct.  And some old CD-ROM drives won't boot to
> CD.  YMMV.  You can still do a boot from floppy and
> hand off to CD.  

True enough.  In the laptops I've tried which didn't
boot from CD, miniCDs continued not to work even when
booting from floppy first.