On Monday 23 Jun 2003 11:29 pm, ed tharp wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Monday 23 June 2003 05:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Monday 23 Jun 2003 3:40 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > > > Good news: Floppies are becoming extinct. According to the > > > > current Dell catalog, floppy drives are now extra-cost > > > > options! This may make sense in a corporate environment, but > > > > it strikes me that it is certainly going to complicate > > > > trouble shooting a standalone home PC. > > > > -- cmg > > > > > > So a useful tool for your box would be a usb superfloppy. I > > > think they are still available? Most modern bioses will boot > > > from LS120 and zip, I think > > > > > > Anne > > > > Anne: > > Good point, and something that the laptop folks have learned to > > do. However, I still like the idea of a $10 floppy drive and a > > small stack of disks with various recovery tools on them. > > Floppies may be slow, and their limited capacity is a real pain, > > but they are simple, robust and nearly universal -- at least in > > the home/SOHO desktop realm. > > > > Ugly scenario: #2 Daughter buys floppy-less Dell. Something goes > > wrong. #2 Daughter calls Daddy for help. Daddy spends a lot of > > time just figuring how to get into the #$*&! Dell so Daddy can > > use toolset while assorted grandchildren incessantly repeat that > > they "want to help Grampa". Rinse and repeat for #1 Daughter and > > #1 Son. > > -- cmg > > only thing, even with no floppy, they can boot from CDrom, so in a > word, "Knopptix" > Some older bioses can't. so why not be safe and have both?
Anne
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