Fedora 4 installation via floppy

[Mike McCarty]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 11:59, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 

>>I'm not talking about installs. For many MB of data, I use
>>either some sort of real network (like even e-mail)
>>or CDs. But when I need to move < 5M or so, a floppy is
>>ideal.
> 
> 
> That's the first time I've seen the words floppy and
> ideal in the same sentence in this century, I think.

You do use charged terms, as this century isn't very
old. You make it sound like it's been 50 years.

>>Not all my machines even *have* USB ports on them. Or
>>ethernet ports. Three of my machines run straight MSDOS.
> 
> 
> I suppose a computer without a network might still have
> some use but I can't think of it offhand.  Is it working
> for you or are you working for it when you hand-carry
> the data over?

Umm, contract work developing software for pharmacies until
recently (last August). I don't have *any* computers connected
to a "network", unless you consider my ADSL modem a network
connection. Certainly I have no "shares" at all.

Mike
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