> The aero floppy drive hangs off the back of a PCMCIA card, and uses
> the one and only slot in the machine when in use. This is no doubt the
> problem.

Nah. It must be somewhat OK, since it actually boots off it through
the BIOS.

> Since you haven't yet purchased it, Peter, I'll tell my story. I was
> at first quite taken by the aero, but after playing with one for a
> while, and looking at the condition of one that someone else had been
> using for a couple of months, I wasn't very impressed. I ended up
> buying, for the same price, the Zenith ZLITE, with 2 pcmcia slots and
> bigger hard disk. Its a much nicer machine all around. Not long after
> the purchase, compaq dropped their prices considerably to reflect
> this, but I'd still have gotten the ZLITE.  Just my opinion, in case
> it's useful to you.  I haven't yet tried running NetBSD on it, though,
> it's a Windows machine for my girlfriend. I heard back from several
> people running linux happily on them, but not from anyone running bsd.

Thanks for the advice. I like it at the moment. I will give it a
week. In the UK pricing is well out of order. Just swap the $ for
a # (<- pound) sign in most cases.

Regards,
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