I think that is their reason, that and some antiquated installs...like XP still require your sata/raid drivers on a floppy. There are some that now come as an ISO or I have even seen one that was a file you could just dump on a bootable USB/CD/anything. I think it is a travesty though that some have gone for a windows live updater, with no way to get it on to another OS than boot windows (as it needs the direct interaction wine don't work), or a windows live cd.
Hopefully one day moving part media will die and we will go solid state everything, with 2gb USB being $4 at the post office we aren't far off. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Amos Shapira <[email protected]>wrote: > 2008/12/30 Martin Visser <[email protected]>: > > booting). Anyway assuming that is sorted with a modern BIOS and OS then > IDE > > can go the way of floppies - but wait, why on earth does the Dell > > motherboard need a floppy interface!! (I am pretty sure HP just doesn't > ship > > anything with them anymore). > > I noticed this "discrepency" too - why keep the floppy when IDE is gone? > Maybe because IDE is not relevant either to desktops and servers, but > floppies are still used for some BIOS and driver upgrades? > > --Amos > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Regards Morgan Storey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
