On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 08:28:38AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 05/04/2018 à 04:20, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > >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. > >>Ascii and Jessie are Stretch and Jessie respectively, both of which have CD > >>as the _primary_ install method (USB storage being just dumb wasteful > >>emulation that doesn't allow any goodies a writeable medium would allow). > >>There are no plans to change this for Buster, either. > >> > >>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. > >>Then how do you attach peripherals? New boxes don't tend to come with a > >>PS2 port anymore. > >It's an old machine with a PS2 port. I've been planning to replace it > >with a modern system, but I can't bring myself to buy a machine with > >malware known to be built into the hardware. > > > >That leaves very slim pickings. > > > I guess you can buy some PCI-USB interface and plug it in.
No free PCI slots left ... I guess it would be possible to disconnect my second ethernet port while installing... I'm just making sure I have a recovery mode in case I screw up and make my machine unbootable during creative :-) maintenance. -- hendrik. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
