>On or about 2004-01-02 11:29, Barry Yu whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and scribbled: >>I am very musch interested that how you can load the Mandrake into a laptop without both floppy drive and cdrom (If I >>understand your laptop equipped devices correctly), would you care to share? Sorry if there was a misunderstanding. I have a CD-ROM/DVD drive, I just don't have a CD-WRITER or a Floppy Drive in my laptop. Both of those were extra. >On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 12:10:12 -0600 Fritz Whittington wrote: >If he does have a CD-ROM drive, I think he would be best advised to go to one of the places on the Net which will mail you the >3 CDs for less than $5. That's what I did, because even though I have a CD burner, I have a 56k dialup connection :-( and >downloading them would have taken longer than the US mail... As for ordering the CD's. That was actually my first thought as well. After purchasing commercial versions of SuSE and Red Hat, I realized that goofing around with Linux was getting expensive, so I ordered Mandrake from CheapBytes. That worked out really well. I just thought that if Fedora was planning on rolling out a new revision every 4 months, that would be a whole lot of ordering and worst of all waiting. Yes, it's true. My quest for loading directly from ISO files is born out of a lack of patience. I would rather spend an entire weekend repartitioning my hard-drive and loading operating systems, than wait for the mail. Crazy? Perhaps not. I've learned a lot this weekend.
