Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 03:42, Mike McCarty wrote:
I think that this is because most people (i.e. other than those that
need to look after legacy systems without USB) now use a USB stick for
that purpose since it's faster and generally more reliable than
floppies.
You may be right. But a stick wears out, and costs a lot more.
Watch for closeouts/rebates on the older small ones. Also,
The cheapest I've seen is $30 or so (perhaps as low as $20
for a really *small* USB FLASH stick).
if you have a USB adapter for compact flash or SD cards you
can use an old card from a camera that you've replaced with
something larger. It really is faster and easier to NFS
Don't have any digital cameras, and not likely to want to get
any. But that's a good idea for those who have them.
export the iso images and boot from USB instead of
having to burn and swap CDs or use floppies (even if they
worked).
I'm not talking about installs. For many MB of data, I use
either some sort of real network (like even e-mail)
or CDs. But when I need to move < 5M or so, a floppy is
ideal.
Not all my machines even *have* USB ports on them. Or
ethernet ports. Three of my machines run straight MSDOS.
In any case, FLASH EEPROM does not seem like a good solution
to me. I don't own any FLASH sticks.
But your conjecture is probably right.
Mike
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