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--k wrote:
IntelMole wrote:Hopefully they'll do *SOMETHING*, *ANYTHING* to get rid of floppies in Longhorn...
Bill, are you listening... get some kind of support in your next OS for installation by cd... I don't care how you do it... but c'mon, floppies can barely store two decent quality A4 jpeg images, let alone the masses of storage we have these days...
--k wrote:IntelMole wrote:Hopefully they'll do *SOMETHING*, *ANYTHING* to get rid of floppies in Longhorn...
Bill, are you listening... get some kind of support in your next OS for installation by cd... I don't care how you do it... but c'mon, floppies can barely store two decent quality A4 jpeg images, let alone the masses of storage we have these days...
You can install off of the windows cd already. And what's stopping you from not having a floppy drive installed?
HowardDrake wrote:You need a floppy drive if you have a Serial ATA drive on a fresh XP installation, IIRC. Kinds funny that you need such old-tech to install the latest tech
emkubed wrote:I take so long to post, Howard posts with a much shorter version of my example...
emkubed wrote:Like Starfalcon said, though you can boot off of CDs to install the OS, drivers for many 3rd party controllers aren't recognized by the 2k or XP CD, and need to be loaded at the very beginning of the OS installation. Your only option is to install these from a floppy, you don't get a menu with a choice to select a CD.
Serialnuker wrote:emkubed wrote:Like Starfalcon said, though you can boot off of CDs to install the OS, drivers for many 3rd party controllers aren't recognized by the 2k or XP CD, and need to be loaded at the very beginning of the OS installation. Your only option is to install these from a floppy, you don't get a menu with a choice to select a CD.
You can install of the driver cd that comes with the hardware, all you need to do in xp is hit f6 when it is booting up the instalation
Another thing is xp recognizes all serial ata things if you have the bios set up right, and all versions of XP can boot off the cd, and!!!! you can instal a new version of bios off cd's
Lets face it Floppticals are useless as a spork well eating spam, which is darn near imposible to do!!
HowardDrake wrote:You need a floppy drive if you have a Serial ATA drive on a fresh XP installation, IIRC. Kinds funny that you need such old-tech to install the latest tech