Installing F7 by CD and not by DVD

taharka res00vl8 at alltel.net
Tue Jun 5 14:17:01 UTC 2007


How do,

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 19:54 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
> > On 6/4/07, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Kam Leo wrote:
> >> > On 6/2/07, Stanley A. Klein <sklein at cpcug.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I have a 500 Mhz Pentium machine that runs FC5 very well.  I 
> >> installed it
> >> >> using the multi-CD set.
> >> >>
> >> >> I can NOT put a DVD drive on the machine, because the minimum speed 
> >> for
> >> >> DVD drives is around 800 Mhz, based on all the drive boxes I looked at
> >> >> when I investigated the matter.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > BUNK!!  600MHz was the speed Microsoft recommended for playing back
> >>
> >> Unnecessarily strong words. In any case, there are people with specialty
> >> machines (like laptops) for which using a DVD drive is not an option,
> >> and others for which *buying* anything is not an option. Others might
> >> not feel techinically inclined to open up their machines.
> >>
> >> Mike
> > 
> > 
> > No those are not unnecessarily strong words. Those were the system
> 
> I looked in my approx. 2000 page dictionary, and it says "bunk" is
> an abbreviated form of "buncombe", which is defined as

Wrong dictionary to be looking in most likely. Get yourself a street
slang dictionary & look up the meaning of bunk :-)

> 1. Bombastic speechmaking or any specious utterance for political
> effect.
> 
> 2. Humbug. Also spelled /bunkum/.
> 
> A humbug is a fraud or deception, as in "Christmas! Bah, humbug!"
> 
> So, which meaning did you intend? I don't think either applies.

Probably neither. Spend some time on the hard rock, in the hood & the
meaning will become clear very fast ;-)

> Mike

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.




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