Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:58:11AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:50:59PM -0800 I heard the voice of
> Avleen Vig, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > While it is indeed true that most machines since 1997 will support this
> > CD format, please take in to account:
> 
> And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even
> if we had 'em, don't want to burn (no pun intended ;) a CD blank just to
> install an OS, when we can just (re-)use 2 floppies and do it across the
> LAN from a local FTP mirror, which is as fast as a CD drive anyway.

My personal descision was to use Compactflash Media in IDE mode.
They are easy to modify with your notebook.

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