yea. i would use a usb, but the money issue is huge with me. i dont know if im allowed to say this because of the rules and all, but since im in high school, the money isn't what you would call flowing into my pockets. i have a 64mb and a 128mb flash drive. the reason i use floppies is that i can label the outside so i know what it is and the fact that im not going to plug it in to another computer by accident and mess it up.

the drive directory of the external floppy is "/media/disk/" and on ubuntu file browser when u see the directories above the info, it changes to "1.5 MB Media"

and when i was looking at "/var/log/syslog/"(and yes it did look promising, im going to add it in a new post) it was added as "/dev/sdb"

and you might get a kick out of this. i took an unused floppy and did something a normal user probably wouldn't do. i made it into over 14 different partitions. never give a kid the "sudo" and a terminal. :-)

so my question would be for the process of making a boot disk via terminal, should i change the fd0 with "disk"?