On 12/08/2011 09:16 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote:
On 12/07/11 14:42, William Whyte wrote:
Well, I think the theoretically correct answer is that you *should*...
these days all the installers can be available online, after all.
Except when the installer CD you need is the one for the network driver
on the new machine without which you can't get online !
There are systems that aren't online, and there are systems that
shouldn't be online for good reasons. For example the power grid.
If we consistently neglect this scenario, then if the Internet ever
suffers more than a brief outage we could find ourselves rebuilding
society from the iron age.
- Marsh
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