On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:18 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > DVD drives are $25. DVD writers are $37. Is it really worth the > hassle of having a dvd-less computer? Maybe for you, but not for everyone. Here, about the only drives you can buy from a shop are DVD writers, for about $90, other options are ex-stock, or second-hand *JUNK* (and I really mean "junk"). I nearly always end up having to pull apart other PCs to do updates, here. Either swapping DVD drives, or moving a hard drive around with files on it. Last time, though, for FC6, the thing flatly refused to install from a hard drive or the network. And that was on a system with a master hard drive, slave CD-ROM, and another master hard drive with the images. No amount of re-organising or re-configuring would get it to see the files that I could access through the command line. I had to resort to ripping a DVD out of another box that I really didn't want to shut down at the time. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
