I have also been running LinuxPPC on a Lombard G3 Powerbook without any floppy drive and I really have never found any reason to need one. BootX (kindof a Mac LILO), allows you to use a ramdisk image in an emergency, and I've only had to do that once. I dunno if this is as clean on the Intel/AMD side, but for Apple hardware, floppies are really not necessary anymore with Ethernet, zip drives, and cdroms.
I just finished installing a serveriron as well, and it is an incredible box for the price. I highly recommend it for any sort of load-balancing, as it uses a much "cleaner" method than just round-robin. Cool.
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I have also been running LinuxPPC on a Lombard G3 Powerbook without any floppy drive and I really have never found any reason to need one. BootX (kindof a Mac LILO), allows you to use a ramdisk image in an emergency, and I've only had to do that once. I dunno if this is as clean on the Intel/AMD side, but for Apple hardware, floppies are really not necessary anymore with Ethernet, zip drives, and cdroms.
I just finished installing a serveriron as well, and it is an incredible box for the price. I highly recommend it for any sort of load-balancing, as it uses a much "cleaner" method than just round-robin. Cool.