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Article #448Re: The plight of the humble floppy disk
From: Hunter1
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:38
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:38
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VH wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:00:32 +1000, Richard Rudek <POS@GAHJ.invalid> > wrote: > >>So you guys don't use any of that new fangled hardware, that upon >>installing or repairing Windows XP, you have press the F6 key and load >>the drivers from A: ? ... ;\ >> > > Now that XP SP2 has been released, it is a good time to learn about > slipstream. MSFN.org is a good place to start with helpful members in > the forums. You can then add drivers needed for the boot devices to > the install CD. > > My old Dell 8250 does not even came with a floppy and my new Dell > PE400SC came with a floppy drive which I planned to remove it since > the case got limited space for drives. Slipstreaming is the way to go, but we've only gone as far as 1a. Still deciding what to do about 2, think we be doing some trialling first and try to work out how many dollars worth of "legacy" apps are going to stop working, and it aint just the cost of the software itself that counts towards that. Hopefully it's all scare-mongering, but MS themselves say it's going to break a few things.
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