Re: [TCLUG:13980] notebooks

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

>         Debian allows you to do a basic install from floppies. I heartily
> recommend that everyone do an entire install from floppies, at least once...
> once, mind you. :)
 
I installed OS/2 once from floppies.  Does that count?  ;-)

Anyway, this reminds me that there were some neat tricks for
Macintoshes, as they have motorized ejection of floppies.  You could get
a device that would hold a stack of 20 or so disks, start your install,
and this device would feed all the disks through automatically -- you
would just come back sometime later and find the job done.

But I hate floppies.  I have always had terrible luck with bad sectors
and what-not..  There were times when I threatened to use my 2400 bps
modem to transfer files from my computer to my dad's, since I knew that
the modem wouldn't screw things up...but I don't think I ever actually
ended up doing that (I'd just dig through a box of floppies 'til I found
one that worked.)

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