On 1 Oct 2006 at 15:04, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 02:04 PM wrote: > > >Seems to me you're just behind the times, which is pretty typical of > >those who criticize both Windows and Mac. > > You are not helping, David. > None of my lowly PCs, Dell Dimension P-III 1GHz, homemade P-II, and > two ThinkPads boots off USB. ThinkPads even doesn't boots off CD. > Floppy is the only way. We have gone through this twice in the past.
You're conflating two different assertions of mine. I said that CD booting had been around for a very long time, and that recent machines offer USB booting. Thinkpads are not Windows-friendly, in general, as IBM seems never to have forgiven MS for the OS/2 vs. Windows fight. This is the only reason I can think of to inconvenience the vast majority of the users of their Thinkpads by omitting the Windows key. BTW, I booted a Thinkpad from CD just the other day, so it must be an older one (this one will be two years old in October). > Even if it booted off Windows installer CD, you can't do anything, > like launch PQDI to restore image. All are needed to be done with > Floppy boot. That's simply not true. If you boot to the command console, you'll get a command line that would allow you to launch anything that can run in a command prompt. > It is a bit surprising to hear from you that I have to buy a new PC > :-) If you want to boot from CD and use the command console, you need a PC built after c. 1999. If you want to boot from USB, you need a PC built in the last couple of years. None of the machines you describe should need a boot floppy. Maybe you just don't know how to use the Windows installation disk and the command console. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
