| Modern motherboard chipsets will boot from a CD-ROM more easily than a floppy diskette. |
| Always take the opportunity to make a boot diskette when Linux gives you that option. |
| There are cases where a suspect has broken a diskette and cut the magnetic media inside the disk with pinking shears. |
| The installation step continues with password setup and some recommendations such as creating a boot diskette. |
| On the downside, MS-DOS is now so well hidden that it's a bit of an uphill task to create a boot diskette for tasks such as BIOS updating. |
| The compiler's first pass was on the first diskette, the second pass was on the second diskette, and the linker was on the third diskette. |
