On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 02:40 AM, David Huerta wrote:

>> The graphics look great here. I don't understand the reference to
>> "floppy disks" though. Why would we want them?
>>
>
> I have yet to see a linux distro that doesn't ask the user to create
> boot and/or root disks during an install.

How strange. I mostly do Macs but I've done a couple of Red Hat 9 
installations and one FreeBSD on typical PCs in the last few weeks. No 
mention was made of floppy disks. Even my old 3rd edition of "Running 
Linux" only mentions floppies as an alternative for when the user 
can't/doesn't want to use LILO.

I mention this so you will know that I wasn't just being facetious when 
I asked why the users should bring floppy disks.

It does occur to me that the list may not be complete. Are we doing 
dual boot installs? Do we need to ask the users to bring a copy of 
their old OS so we can put it back? Do we need to remind them to back 
up their data because we are going to reformat their disks? Is there 
too much stuff to fit on a flier? Should the flier just point to a web 
page where we can discuss the preparations that they should make at 
length?