On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 03:40:55AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 08:06:10PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > I hope fixing this doesn't disable the CDROM and that ascii or jessie 
> > will still install from a CDROM when you *have* a CDROM.
> 
> 
> On the other hand, I for one haven't owned a machine equipped with a CD
> drive in like a decade (and DVD or BD: never), although I do have a few
> drives in the junk pile, briefly attached one last year to help a relative
> to sort through old stuff.  CD/DVD/BD drives are hardware that's already
> rare and will become unheard of very shortly.
> 
> > My machine's USB has died.
> 
> Unless your machine is a laptop, in which case you already have a keyboard
> and a bad pointing device, but have no way to attach a CD drive even if you
> wanted.

Sorry, but some current and next generation laptops still have CD/DVD/BD
drives. You do seem to have a very narrow view of the diversity of
hardware currently being manufactured and sold. I am typing this on a
Clevo laptop purchased (without operating system, so linux friendly)
within the last couple of years. This and the current revision has
the usual CD/DVD drive.

ael
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