[NTLUG:Discuss] Why I love Debian
MadHat Unspecific
madhat at unspecific.com
Tue Jun 12 02:03:59 CDT 2007
Lance Simmons wrote:
> I was doing a fresh install of Debian on an old machine, and there was
> something hinky with the cdrom drive. I tried two different copies of
> the Debian net-install cd, that I knew were good, but no luck. I also
> tried a Ubuntu cd that I also knew was good, but again it didn't work.
>
> Obviously a hardware problem. I don't ever use cd's, except to
> install operating systems, and somehow over the years something has
> happened to my cdrom drive. What a pain -- now I'll have to open up
> the machine and install a new cdrom drive, probably from some other
> machine, since I'm too cheap to go out and buy one new.
>
> Then I remembered that you can still do a floppy install of Debian. I
> downloaded five floppy images, copied them to five floppy disks, then
> did a net-install of the current version of Debian, with no problems.
> Maybe I'll get around to installing a new cdrom drive, but maybe not.
> I love Debian.
I don't think I have but 1 machine with a floppy drive anymore. Even my
servers are CD only. Though I have a USB CDROM I use to install with on
most machines now.
I get what you are saying and it is cool it worked out for you.
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