If you are making $10 an hour, you can earn the price of a new tower in 30 hours. If you have spent two weekends on this, then it would have been cheaper to just buy a new tower.
That being said, I will admit to only donating my Commodore 64 to Goodwill in December. It had been sitting in the back of my basement for ten years. Mark -- Robert Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Telephone: (845) 566-0586 On Friday, March 18, 2011 1:51:33 pm Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > That is the point, if your working on a system that needs to boot from a > floppy and only a floppy, you need to ask the question: > Is what I am doing worth the time and effort? I mean if your formatting a > HD, just put it in a PC that you can work with. > If the system is so old ( say MFM drives etc ) then unless your recovering > data, that system should be recycled for metals not put back in service. > There is a point a which one needs to do the right thing and console the > supportee by telling them it's just "game over" time to get a new system. > > My impression was that these are systems that are going to be re-deployed. > Which is great, I'm all for that. But not for trying to fight a losing > battle keeping 10+ year old PC's up and running. That is more time and > headache that anyone should suffer through. > > I was referring to OpenDOS which was derived from DrDOS 7.x => > http://www.drdosprojects.de/ > Which is somewhat popular in the embedded space > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Fri, March 18, 2011 12:49 pm, Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > > > Don't forget DrDos 7.x that is still floppy based, but not sure which > > > > file > > > > > systems it can format/supports. > > > > Uh, DrDos was a product of Caldera, and Caldera was bought by SCO. > > I used to use DrDos for a while, and I don't remember it supporting > > formatting Linux filesystems, and since the SCO merger we've had the > > inclusion of ext3 and ext4 both of which I'm sure DrDos won't support. > > > > I think the suggestion of using a Gnu/Linux LiveCD of one form or another > > for partitioning + formatting partitions is a good angle for this. There > > are still Linux distros you can fit on floppies, but only a Linux > > "sub-kernel" can fit on a single floppy, last I recall. > > > > > Anyway isn't using systems that do not have a CD kinda useless? > > > I mean more trouble then solution, since floppies are no longer made or > > > available. > > > Just trying to provide helpfully/constructive criticism. > > > > While I too consider the Floppy to be the "last alternative", there are > > older systems that cannot boot from CD nor USB, so if you want to work > > with that kind of box there is realistically no other option. > > > > -- Chris > > > > -- > > > > Chris Knadle > > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > > > Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 > > May 4 - Inkscape > > Jun 1 - Zimbra _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 May 4 - Inkscape Jun 1 - Zimbra
