On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 11:59, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> > >>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). You aren't looking at closeouts: http://www.buy.com/retail/clearance/product.asp?sku=70014892&loc=114 (not a recommendation - just an example under $10) For this use the size barely matters - you are going to copy the <8M diskboot.imag and lose any additional space - which is why the old camera cards are good. > > 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. That's the first time I've seen the words floppy and ideal in the same sentence in this century, I think. > Not all my machines even *have* USB ports on them. Or > ethernet ports. Three of my machines run straight MSDOS. I suppose a computer without a network might still have some use but I can't think of it offhand. Is it working for you or are you working for it when you hand-carry the data over? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
