Fedora 4 installation via floppy

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 18:34:56 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 11:59, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >>
> >>You may be right. But a stick wears out, and costs a lot more.
> > 
> > 
> > Watch for closeouts/rebates on the older small ones.  Also,
> 
> The cheapest I've seen is $30 or so (perhaps as low as $20
> for a really *small* USB FLASH stick).

You aren't looking at closeouts:
http://www.buy.com/retail/clearance/product.asp?sku=70014892&loc=114
(not a recommendation - just an example under $10)
For this use the size barely matters - you are going to copy
the <8M diskboot.imag and lose any additional space - which
is why the old camera cards are good.

> > export the iso images and boot from USB instead of
> > having to burn and swap CDs or use floppies (even if they
> > worked).
> 
> 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.

> 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?

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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