The first step would be to move them to the hard disk. She hasn't gotten around to that. I wonder if she ever will.
And this computer has no DVD or CD writer. We had to use her son's computer to burn the Ubuntu CD. Even if it did, I wonder if a 133MHz computer could keep the write buffer full. I doubt it. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown > How about backing up the zip disks to dvd's. Then use flash > drives for replacements. > Jim K > Allen Brown wrote: >> She has a boatload of old zip disks. I can relate. My >> Dad created a boatload of C64 floppys. I have transferred >> a bunch to hard drive, but there are so many. And it takes >> so much time. >> >> The other thing about Gentoo is that it is for experts. >> I wanted something that she could install when she is in >> Michigan. With Ubuntu that is possible. Of course, I >> know you know that. >> > H > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
