On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2011/08/30 15:06 (GMT+1000) Chris Jones composed: > >> I can't see any reason for floppies these days considering their extreme >> price per data unit as opposed to usb memory. > > For some people the price of floppies is a sunk cost, or was never a cost at > all (e.g. me, who has over a hundred empty ones acquired 5, 10 or 20 years > ago, some at 0 price). > > Unlike USB chips in most budgets, each floppy is cheap enough to be > disposable after one use or dedicated to one small file. > > Floppies have enough room on them to write down something legible about their > content (e.g. DOS boot with FDISK; Memtest86+ v.whatever; BIOS flash for xyz > brand AMI BIOS; etc.) which won't interfere with insertion or removal from > its reader. > > Floppies are large enough to be much less likely than a USB stick to get lost > between couch cushions or fit through a pocket hole. > > Not everyone uses hardware with installed and functional OM, bootable USB or PXE. > > A rude installer might unset a bootable flag or fail to install boot code in > the MBR of the only available internal storage, leaving the primary boot > device unbootable, and a floppy the only available device to boot from > without opening up the machine, if opening up is even any option at all. CD/DVD ? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
