DVD Only Install...

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 00:42 +0100, Ian Chapman wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 
> > 1. Newer computers do not have floppy drives (which I think is a shame).
> 
> Really, that surprises me. I'd like to see them disappear altogether to 
> be left in the halls of computing history. :)
Well I guess we have different philosophies. If I want to save 1 or a
few small files and take them to another machine (where there is no
Internet connection to the first) or just place them in a filing cabinet
for backup I don't see the advantage have to use expensive memory stick
or to burn a CD, etc.

I use the floppy drive extensively for this purpose and there is no
other way to do it so easily.

At the risk of being personal and too specific , I am a diabetic, Every
week I produce a list of my glucose readings. I save them to a floppy
and put them into a filing cabinet. To be up to date I also place the
file on a CD-RW (so we have a 700M CD with a single 400K file). Once out
of every 10 times when I write to the CD it complains that the CD is no
longer writable. Never mind that Fedora (as far as I know) has no
program to format a CD-RW. And this is progress. No way.
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Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net