The bad news is that the CDRW of FreeSBIE wouldn't boot from the CD drive. But I did get it going. And an attempt at a hard drive install failed. Evidently I may need to adjust partition sizes. I tried using it as a LiveCD but it seems to find and ignore serial pointers too, dagnabbit.

The good news is that a boot managing floppy does its job quite well. I think _dakko pointed it out to me a while ago. This does exactly what it claims to do. I made a floppy from the downloaded image and use it to get to the CD that wasn't booting. So the night wasn't a complete waste. At least I have a boot floppy that will let me start from devices that aren't fully cooperating.

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Last night Masem pointed out that /. mentioned a LiveCD Roundup article and yakko quipped that I'd likely tried them all. Not quite, but I have tried a couple of them (Beatrix, knoppix), tried a few that weren't mentioned (DeadCD, Feather, Vector) . A couple that I have yet to try look interesting. I might try PCLinuxOS and Mandrake Move on a faster machine now. And I might have a look at FreesBie and consider running a BSD.

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