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On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:59 +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
Yup, F6 is the magic key. Windows XP does this also, of course i'm not quite sure what happens if the machine doesn't have a floppy drive... and/or you don't have the drivers on a floppy. Then, Windows is supposed to be easy to install ;)
There is actually a process where you can slipstream the correct SCSI drivers into the installation media. Of course in most cases it is easier to just (even just for the purposes of the installation) plug in a floppy. Although I have in the past encountered SCSI drivers that wouldn't fit on a floppy.
I rather think that some ATI graphics cards wouldn't, maybe even Linux drivers for them.
Actually slipstreaming installation disks has always fascinated me, on one hand they tell you not to make copies of the installation media, on the other they endorse (and provide the tools) to make your own slipstream installation disks.
They (even M$) sanction your making one for backup purposes.
But yes you are right it's always something I bring up when somebody complains about how hard Linux is to install
Minds work in different ways. I'm sure you'd pick up and retain pootery stuff much better than I. My short-term memory alway has been atrocious, possibly due to lead poisoning when I was an anklebiter.
Because I've installed versions of Windows many times over, I find that easy. (Until something goes wrong, and I have to unforget something very pootery...)
Give me a set of bench tools though, and I could devise ways of making really complicated items out of a variety of materials, and carry out the task, down to hardening and tempering steels without the use of an oven.