Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE:

 MK> Hey WAYNE!

 MK> Jul 21 16:47 05, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to TOM WALKER:

 WC> No idea what this dated BIOS supports by way of DVD.

 MK> If it supports booting from a CD-ROM then it will support booting
 MK> from a DVD-ROM.  They both are ATAPI unless they are SCSI.

That's interesting to know,  I wasn't aware of that.  No DVD drive here yet. :-)

 MK> I have built both bootable CD's and DVD's and there is no 
 MK> difference other then the formatting when buring them which should
 MK> be of no consequence if you don't ever plan on building iso's.

One of these days real soon I should start doing that (for backing up,
archiving, etc.).



 MK> The live version of ttylinux works great and isn't bloated.  Mind
 MK> you no GUI stuff so it doesn't have to be bloated.  :-)

What's the particular advantage of ttylinux over other varieties?

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